After a brief period when active COVID-19 cases reduced, there is again a spike in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), including Mumbai. The MMR has gone from 43,000 patients last week to 48,000 patients on August 30. On Monday, the state government issued Unlock 4.0 guidelines, where restrictions on movement of people and goods between districts and states has been done away with. Gyms will remain closed and group sports like football, cricket, will stay suspended.

Just when the first phase of Unlock had begun, the whole region had 30,637 active cases on June 2.