Mumbai May Witness Partial Lockdown: Guardian Min Amid COVID-19 Surge
Mumbai: Mumbai Guardian Minister Aslam Shaikh warned that the Maharashtra government will have to consider imposing a partial lockdown if COVID-19 cases don’t reduce in the city.
Shaikh told TOI that the option of the partial lockout in Mumbai was discussed in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. He said the CM expressed concern that the active cases have gone back to the climax seen in September last year.
The guardian minister said the government would first try to control the infection by implementing measures such as imposing fines for not wearing masks or crowding the marriage halls and pubs. Institutional quarantine may be an option and increasing testing and speeding up large-scale vaccination programs may be other options.
“Finally a partial lockdown could be imposed if cases continue to increase,” Shaikh added.
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The state health department said that on Sunday, 11,141 new infections occurred in Maharashtra, which increased to 22,19,727, while 38 people died. This was the highest single-day boom since October 16, when 11,447 cases were reported in the state.
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In addition, the city of Mumbai registered 1,361 new cases during the day, while the Mumbai division, including Mumbai and satellite cities, added 2,493 new infections. The department said the Mumbai airport case reached 3,35,569, while the total death toll rose to 11,504.
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