Young doctors, working as interns across government hospitals in the city, will soon be roped in to help senior doctors with regard to people quarantined in their homes. Sources said that these interns will be deployed across the city after training them on dealing with Covid-19 patients.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked Mumbai University (MU) to provide them with a list of medical students who graduated last year. It includes orthopedics, dentists, skin-care specialists, homeopathy graduates, ENT specialists and more. Around 5,000 youngsters graduated as doctors last year from Mumbai.