Essential services may collapse from Monday, if the call given by the BEST Undertaking's biggest trade union for a complete lockdown of its services, comes into effect. With the rising number of COVID-19 positive cases in the undertaking, seven deaths so far and an "unresponsive management", the Shashank Sharad Rao-led BEST Sanyukta Kamgar Kruti Samiti (BSKKS) on Thursday said enough was enough, asking its employees to follow a complete lockdown from Monday.

In the absence of local trains, BEST has been running services to ferry essential staff of the BMC and hospitals, and at times even transporting patients and supplies as per requirement. BEST buses have also been pressed into service at railway stations and the airport .