1 / 11On the first day of the weekend lockdown imposed across Maharashtra in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases, streets wore a deserted look in many parts of Mumbai.2 / 11Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has permitted citizens, who are eligible to get the Covid jab, to travel only to the vaccination centres and back during lockdown.3 / 11Places such as Andheri-Kurla Link Road or Dadar flower market, which witness heavy footfalls during the day, were empty on Saturday.4 / 11Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held an all-party meeting on Saturday to build consensus on the steps needed to break the chain of transmission.5 / 11 The possibility of imposing a complete lockdown was the main topic discussed during the meeting.6 / 11On Friday, Health Minister Rajesh Tope had said Maharashtra seemed headed towards a lockdown while Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar said the time for such a step was already here.7 / 11The state has reported more than 50,000 Covid-19 cases daily for some time now. Meanwhile, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday that 1,45,384 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours in the country, a new record high.8 / 11Fearing another possibility of total lockdown, migrant workers and their families have been leaving the state to return to their hometowns again.9 / 11Maharashtra Labour Minister Hasan Mushrif has requested migrant workers to not leave the state, and assured them that the government has no plans of shutting down industrial production.10 / 11Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is in favour of a complete lockdown in the state that is struggling with an unprecedented rise in coronavirus cases, as per a NDTV report.11 / 11However, the report adds not all members of the Shiv Sena-Congress-Nationalist Congress Party coalition that rules the state are in favour of a lockdown and neither is the opposition BJP.