Mumbai | Jagran News Desk: Day after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sealed a building in Mumbai's Dharavi after a 56-year-old COVID-19 patient died, a second coronavirus case was reported on Thursday after Asia's largest slum. This is the second coronavirus case in Dharavi in less than 24 hours. 

"The 52-year-old man who tested positive had developed symptoms and was advised by BMC officials to get treatment. His condition is stable. His family members and 23 colleagues have been advised to quarantine," a BMC official said, as quoted by news agency ANI. 

The BMC had sealed a building in Mumbai’s Dharavi after a 56-year-old man, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, died on Wednesday.

The man, who was admitted on March 29, passed away here at Sion Hospital. The hospital authorities said that the swab samples of the man who had co morbid condition of renal failure and also had fever, cough and respiratory issues, came in positive.

The hospital authorities said that the man died on Wednesday at around 6.30 pm and he hailed from from Shahu Nagar in Dharavi, which is a densely populated area and known as the largest slum area in Asia.

"Other seven members of his family are home quarantined, they will be tested on Thursday," the BMC said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

The authorities further said that the man lived in a building constructed under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme and he had no foreign travel history.

According to a news agency PTI report, the police faced stone-pelting as they tried to disperse a crowd that had gathered in the area after learning about the man's death.

A group of persons started arguing with policemen and some of them started throwing stones, an official said, as quoted by PTI.

Nobody was injured in the incident. The police registered a case against unidentified persons, the official added.

As many as 180 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus in Mumbai while over a dozen deaths of COVID-19 patients so far.

In Maharashtra, the deadly virus has affected more than 300 people after 33 people tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.

Health Minister Rajesh Tope had said earlier in the day that the number of cases would increase further because there were around 5,000 persons in "high-risk" category.

Relatives or close friends of these people had tested positive for COVID-19 (making it likely that they might have caught the infection too), he said.