The second wave: Covid cases going up, Thane opts for 'limited lockdowns'

Local businesses hit, bigger industries coping better

Mayur Mishra, who runs a mattress shop outside Varthak Nagar, a containment zone in Thane, is a worried man. He has not had a single customer for the last three days.
 
“I don’t know how I will pay my rent (Rs 10,000 a month),” he says. He could not pay it during the lockdown. “The owner says I need to repay it in instalments. Even if I return to my hometown, I will need to pay the house rent.”
 
Mishra was among the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh who had gone back to their