'Lockdown in Mumbai if..' Mayor issues warning Amid Covid - 19 surge
The BMC has issued fresh guidelines in view of the surging casses of covid -19 in Mumbai. It has directed sealing of buildings if more than 20 per cent of the occupied number of flats has covid - 19 patients.
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| Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar addressing mediapersons on Tuesday. |
Jan,04,2022 04:14 pm (Ist) Posted By:
Mumbai mayor kishori pednekar warned on Tuesday that a lockdown will be imposed in the city if daily casses of the coronavirus disease |Covid - 19| cross the 20,000 mark. The number of covid -19 casses has seen a rapid increase in maharashtra and its capital Mumbai is among the leading contributors in the state - wide tally.
On monday, mumbai recorded 8,082new covid - 19 casses the higest daily count since April - 18 2022, and two deaths. In the last one week , the metropolis logged a 10-fold rise in fresh casses of the viral infection
For now, the civic body has decide not put any restrictions on suburban train travel. Suresh kakani, Additional Municipal corporation at Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC), said on Monday that the Maharashtra goverment will take a decision on the issue in consultation with the state task force on covid - 19 if needed.
The BMC has issued fresh guidelines in view of the surging casses of covid - 19 in Mumbai. It has directed sealing of buildings if more than 20 per cent of the occupied number of flats has Covid - 19 patients.
The guidelines came into effect from Tuesday (January-4).
The BMC further notified that covid -19 patient and contacts shall strictly follow the current guidelines of home isolation and hygien etiquettes while in home quarantine.
Maharashtra’s infection tally on Monday reached |6,712,028| after |12,160| fresh cases were recorded within a span of 24 hours.
Dr Pradeep Vyas, additional chief secretary for health said that going by projections prepared by the state health department, by the third week of January, active cases may reach up to 200,000 and breach 300,000 by the first week of February.
He, however, said that it would be too early to say definitively that the daily caseload would reach 100,000 in the peak, as cases are rising only in some districts and not in the entire state.
Maharashtra was hit by the second wave in February 2021 and experienced a peak two months later. In the second wave, the highest one - day tally was | 68,631 | cases reported on April 18, and highest tally of active cases went up to 699,858 reported on April 22.
