In the wake of the growing number of novel Coronavirus cases, the BMC has instructed Pawandham, the Jain temple at Mahavir Nagar in Kandivli West, to once again set up the COVID-19 centre. The civic body had asked the management to shut down the facility just last month.

According to the BMC's letter to the Pawandham management, the COVID-19 centre at the temple will remain operational till October 31 and admit only asymptomatic patients without any comorbidities. However, the civic body said it won't pay the management to run the facility as it charges the patients. Run by parliamentarian Gopal Shetty, over 850 COVID-19 patients were successfully treated here.