A couple from central Mumbai, scared of the city that has become the epicentre of COVID-19, left on their bike for their hometown after the four-months pregnant wife contracted COVID-19. The two were intercepted by alert citizens who informed the police in Mahad in Raigad district when they were on their way to their hometown on their bike.

The 27-year-old woman, a resident of Pratiksha Nagar, Sion, was taken to K J Somaiyya Hospital on May 7 for a pregnancy check-up. The hospital tested and informed her on May 11 that she is COVID-19-positive. The woman was admitted and the husband was quarantined at a centre until May 18.