The BJP has slammed Shiv Sena-ruled BMC for not learning lessons from its past—exhibiting insensitiveness towards COVID-19 patients and their relatives. Referring to the mid-day report on the BMC hospital compelling a 21-year-old boy to wrap the body of his mother who died of the virus on July 2, former Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar slammed the Shiv Sena. "First, it was the Sion incident, where a video showing bodies wrapped in black plastic sheets lying next to patients went viral. Instead of learning from the past, the civic administration repeated the mistakes," Shelar said.

mid-day on Saturday had carried a report on how the staff of Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivli made Kunal Utekar wrap the body of his mother Pallavi, and that too, without giving him any protection kit to wear. The boy had to call his cousin to the hospital for help—to shift his mother's body from the ward to an ambulance.