While the number of people being tested for Coronavirus continues to grow and the state is in stage II of the epidemic, arrangements for setting up new testing facilities in the city seem to be lagging behind. Despite the announcement by health minister Rajesh Tope on Sunday, that two more testing centres will be opened in the city soon, an official at one of the institute's mentioned, JJ Hospital, said they had no intimation about this. An official at the other centre, Haffkine Institute, said their laboratory would be ready in a month.

The civic body has screened around 2.5 lakh people who returned after international travel at airports since January 18 and have been sorted under three categories depending on whether they displayed symptoms. More than 1,800 people have visited the Out Patient Department at Kasturba Hospital and over the past couple of months, more than 500 people have been admitted and tested there.