Amid rising Omicron and coronavirus cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday, December 28, said that it will re-evaluate the restrictions, which have been imposed in the wake of festivity, during the first week of January.
This comes at a time when Mumbai witnessed a sharpest hike in the last seven months with 1,377 new cases in the last 24 hours.
Explaining further, the BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani said that the BMC will take a call immediately after January 1 on whether to extend or relax the current restrictions. The decision will be taken after studying a few factors.
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He further mentioned that from the last week of December to the first week of January, a lot of people come and go out of India, therefore, the figures are only fluctuating right now.
For the next one week, we will be recording the overall growth rate in the city, the bed availability in all the hospitals, oxygen requirement and the percentage of patients that are getting hospitalised. As of now, there are no stringent rules, but officials will only get clarity after studying the figures, Kakani added.
Moreover, Kakani stated that till December 31, the civic body officials have decided to do genome sequencing of all positive cases to check whether it is Omicron or a Delta derivative or the Delta variant.
Maharashtra’s Omicron variant total tally reached to 167 on Monday, December 27.
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