Lata Mangeshkar’s Building Gets Sealed

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC) has sealed the building of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar as a precautionary step during the coronavirus pandemic. The 90-year-old singer lives at Prabhukunj building on Peddar Road in south Mumbai, Indian Express reports.

The Mangeshkar family, in a statement, said the building was sealed as it houses many senior citizens. “We have been inundated by calls all evening enquiring whether Prabhukunj is sealed. The Building Society and the BMC have sealed it from the onset of the epidemic as we have senior citizens at home and in the building and it is mandatory to take these precautions. Even our usual festive Ganesha celebrations was a simple familial one this time to co-operate and support social distancing,” the statement read.

There were reports that certain building tenants had tested COVID-19 positive but the family asked well-wishers not to engage in any speculations. "Please don't particularly respond to any hearsay regarding the wellbeing of our family members. We, as a building society in unison, are taking utmost caution, care and co-operating to ensure the well being and safety of all the senior citizens especially and all the other residing members as well.

“By God’s grace and the wishes of so many, the family is safe,” the statement read.

On Saturday, coronavirus case tally in Maharashtra rose to 7,64,281 with record 16,867 new cases.