In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, public transport in Mumbai is been sanitised to contain the spread of the pandemic. BEST buses, local trains, railway stations and now the metro are being regularly scrubbed to maintain a clean and safe environment in the city amid the scare of the pandemic.

BEST spokesperson Manoj Varade said that as a preventive measure, the BEST is appealing to its commuters against standee travel in its buses from tomorrow and requested to take social distancing seriously. He said they will study crowd patterns at bus depots tomorrow and accordingly arrange additional buses if required and that the bus depot managers had been given such powers.