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Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Tuesday hinted about the possibility of imposing a lockdown in the financial capital amid the constant surge in COVID-19 cases. The mayor said that if the daily COVID-19 cases in Mumbai cross the 20,000 mark, then lockdown might be imposed.
"We will have to impose a lockdown in Mumbai if the daily COVID cases cross the 20,000 mark" Pednekar said.
Pednekar also said that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is likely to speak about the COVID situation in the state in the next 2-3 days.
- This statement comes a day after the city reported 8,082 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the highest daily spike since 18th April, 2021. Out of the new cases, 40 were of the Omicron variant which took the tally of Omicron variant cases in Mumbai to 368.
The BMC had yesterday announced that schools for classes 1 to 9 and class 11 will be closed till January 31. However students of classes 10 and 12 have been allowed to attend the school.
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