A 45-year-old blind beggar tested positive for COVID-19 in Malvani on June 27. When the BMC health officials reached his place where he would usually be to get him to a hospital, they couldn't find him. The officers then went to his house, but he wasn't there as well. So the officials then took the help of locals and after about four hours of searching, they traced him and got him hospitalised.

His family members — wife, daughter and three sons were quarantined in the Malvani's MHB School. But within 24 hours of being into quarantine, his sons managed to escape from the centre. They were caught by the health officials and sent back into quarantine. However, one of them has again escaped on Sunday and the search for him is underway.