Maharashtra Lockdown : Imposed curb 5 PM to 5 AM for 15 days from today

Amid Omicron Spread Maharashtra government tighten the restriction in state. Mumbai Imposed curb 5 PM to 5 AM for 15 days (Maharashtra Lockdown) from today. People in Mumbai won’t be allowed to visit beaches, open grounds, sea faces, promenades, parks and similar public places between 5 pm and 5 am till January 15 given the massive spike in coronavirus cases, Mumbai Police said in an order on New Year’s Eve.

Mumbai curb Large gatherings also stand banned under the order which came into force from 1 pm on Friday and will remain till January 15, unless withdrawn earlier, senior police officer S Chaitanya said. “The city continues to be threatened with COVID-19 pandemic in light of the increase in cases and emergence of the new Omicron variant,” the order said. The prohibitory order was issued to prevent danger to human life, health and safety and to curb transmission of the virus, it added.

Authorities had banned all large gatherings ahead of the New Year. Maharashtra has seen 198 fresh Omicron cases amid fears over a third Covid wave as it logged 5,368 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, 37 per cent higher than the day before. A 52-year-old man, who recently travelled to Nigeria, tested positive for the Covid’s fast-spreading Omicron strain after he died of a heart attack at a hospital on the outskirts of Pune. Maharashtra Man Died of Heart Attack, after died tests showed omicron positive.

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Asserting that the death was caused by “non-Covid reasons”, Maharashtra’s public health department said in a bulletin that samples of the man that were sent to the National Institute of Virology have tested positive for the new variant. “A 52-year-old man with a travel history to Nigeria died of a heart attack on December 28, 2021 at Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s Yashwantrao Chavan Hospital. This patient has had diabetes for the last 13 years. The death of this patient is due to non-covid reasons.

Coincidently, today’s NIV report reveals that he was infected with the Omicron virus,” the bulletin said. According to the bulletin issued yesterday, 450 cases of the Omicron strain have been recorded in Maharashtra so far. Of the 198 cases reported yesterday, 30 are international travellers. On Thursday afternoon, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray met the state’s Covid task force.

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One of the key discussions at the high-level meeting was on the new variant that is believed to be driving up the infections in the state, which has the highest overall cases in the country (66,65,386). Fearing a fresh coronavirus wave, the city’s civic body the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation – has reactivated its ward-level war rooms to tackle the increasing number of cases. These war rooms are set up in all 24 wards to manage hospital admissions, oxygen and medicine requirements and vaccination as well. The war rooms that follow the “test, trace and treat” strategy also keep a track of patients isolated at their homes.