Recently, the actor Anushka Sharma encouraged her fans to wear a mask as an emerging number of citizens in Mumbai have been caught without one.

On Tuesday, Mumbai Police took to their Instagram handle to share a graph to show the number of people they have caught without a mask.

On August 29, they caught about 920 people without a mask, the highest in one week. “Risks high precautions low! Get serious Mumbai! THE THREAT IS REAL. Look at the rising number of people caught roaming without masks last week and this might just be the tip of the iceberg. How we wish the fines you pay could keep Corona at bay. Alas!” they captioned in the post.

Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma has shared the post on her Instagram Stories and urged everyone to wear a mask, at least for others’ sake. “Mask pehen lo (wear a mask) Doosron ke bare mein bhi soch lo Zara (think a little about others as well),” she said, adding a folded hands emoji.

Further stars such as Anil Kapoor, Kiara Advani, and Karisma Kapoor have also shared the post and urged their social media followers to wear a mask.

Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) has noticed a slight surge in Covid-19 cases in the last few days. The daily average of coronavirus cases rose from 250 new cases in mid-August to 350 in the last five days. Mumbai recorded around 325 Covid-19 cases on August 1, which dropped to 262 on August 15. However, according to the state health department, the city registered 345 new cases on August 29.

Anushka Sharma:
Bollywood star Anushka Sharma, in the meantime, has been stationed in the United Kingdom for a while presently. The actress Anushka and her daughter Vamika have accompanied Virat Kohli to the destination. He along with the rest of the Indian cricket team flew to Southampton in June. The team first played the ICC World Test Championship Final, against New Zealand, and is currently playing a test series against the home team, England.

The actor Anushka Sharma has often applauded the team through social media posts. Anushka was last seen in 2018’s Zero, alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif. Although she has taken a break from acting since then, she has produced a few digital projects in the past two years.

Through Clean Slate Films, she has backed Amazon Prime Video’s Patal Lok and Netflix’s Bulbul. She is also producing Qala, which will mark Irrfan Khan’s son Babil Khan’s debut in Bollywood.