India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Bombay, February 18: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued new guidelines for Mumbai on Thursday amid rising COVID-19 cases.
According to BMC Commissioner IS Chahal, if 5 or more Covid-19 patients are found in a building, it will be sealed.
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“Seals will be placed on the back of the hands of patients in home quarantine. 300 bailiffs will be hired to monitor people traveling on local trains without a face mask. Additionally, additional officers will be hired to monitor violators in Mumbai. “said the BMC.
In addition, wedding halls, clubs and restaurants, etc. will be raided. Now people returning from Brazil will also have to undergo a mandatory institutional quarantine. Testing will increase in areas where more patients are found, Chahal said.
Mumbai reported 736 new coronavirus cases, increasing its overall count to 3,16,487, the BMC said.
This is the second day in a row that the city has reported more than 700 new cases of infection. On Wednesday, there were 726 cases in the city.
On Monday and Tuesday, the number of daily cases had dropped below the 500 mark.
The city’s death toll from the infection has reached 11,430 with four new deaths, the BMC said in its data.
According to him, the number of recovered patients increased to 2.97,995 when 473 patients recovered and were discharged from the hospital, while the active patient count also increased to 6,201.
The average growth rate of COVID-19 cases in the city is 0.17 percent and the average doubling rate of COVID-19 cases is 417 days.
With 22,382 COVID-19 tests performed on Thursday, the total test count increased to 30,80,528.
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