The sights and sounds at Bandra's MMRDA grounds — where scores of vegetable wholesalers have been doing business between 10 pm and 6 am every day since the APMC market in Vashi shut down — make one wonder whether there is any fear of COVID-19 among Mumbaikars.

Scores of vegetable vendors are scattered across four of the halogen-lit grounds; they line up next to each other without maintaining minimum distance, while interacting with thousands of customers.