In a shocking incident, local residents of Malad forcibly shut the Suburban Laboratory, which has been used for COVID-19 test after the lab defied lockdown orders and social distancing norms amid total lockdown across the country.

The suburban laboratory which has been set up as a collection centre for COVID-19 test is visited by over dozens of people everyday who come for the coronavirus test. When the building residents came to know that the people visiting the lab were defying lockdown orders and no one was following social distancing, they came together and shut down the lab, local social worker Nevda Putman said.