As Mumbai's Worli Koliwada becomes the largest containment zone in the city with tight police controls, Lounge reports on the everyday battles of its residents It had only been minutes since I arrived outside Worli Koliwada, a fishing village in Mumbai, when a resident from the neighbourhood stopped me on the street. “Are you from the press?" he asked. “Yes." “People from Koliwada have been breaking the curfew and coming to our slums for groceries.
If we get infected (by the coronavirus), who’s responsible?" Four days earlier, on 30 March, the Brihanmumbai municipal corporation (BMC) had placed the fishermen’s colony under complete lockdown after four of its residents tested positive for covid-19.