As Mumbai’s daily Covid-19 count dropped below the 1,000-mark for the first time after December 27, 2021, the city administration decided to lift some restrictions that were imposed after the spike in cases.
The administration lifted the night curfew and permitted the restaurants and theatres to operate at 50 per cent capacity. Here’s what’s open and what remains shut in the city:
• Public places, including beaches, parks and gardens, can remain open as per normal timings.
• Amusement/theme parks will remain operational with 50 per cent of the operational capacity.
• Swimming pools, water parts will also remain open with 50 per cent capacity.
• Restaurants, theatres, natyagrihas will operate with 50 per cent capacity as per their normal timings.
• Marriage can have guests upto 25 per cent of the capacity of the open ground and banquet halls or 200 — whichever is lower.
• Bhajans and all other local, cultural and folk entertainment programs will be allowed with half the capacity of the venue.
• There will no longer be any restrictions on the movement during the night hours of 11pm to 5pm.
• Local tourist spots to remain open as per normal timings.
• Weekly bazaars to remain open as per normal timings.
Mumbai on Tuesday reported 803 new Covid cases and seven deaths, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release. On the second day in a row, Mumbai reported less than 1,000 new coronavirus infections, while daily fatalities fell to single digit for the first time since December 19, 2021.
It took the caseload in the country’s financial capital to 10,47,393, while the death toll reached 16,630. The positivity rate or infections found per hundred tests dipped to 1.55 per cent from 2.10 per cent a day before.
With 51,492 Covid-19 tests carried out since Monday evening, about 5,800 more than the previous day, the tally of samples tested so far rose to 1,53,40,933. With 1,800 patients recovering, the tally of recoveries increased to 10,19,088, and the city’s rate of recovery is 97 per cent.
(With PTI inputs)
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