"Lockdown Again If Covid Cases Spike": Uddhav Thackeray Cautions Maharashtra

While medicines and vaccines are available, oxygen was still in shortage, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has compared the battle against Covid with the Independence struggle, saying if people do not follow the protocol, the easing of restrictions will be reversed in the state and a lockdown reverted to. Speaking on the event of the country's 75th Independence Day yesterday, he said people need to act together to free the state and the country from the pandemic. "We are easing restrictions now. We need to be more alert…if the number of Covid cases sees a rise, then we will have no other option but to reimpose the lockdown," Chief Minister Thackeray said in his Independence Day address after unfurling the national flag at Mantralaya, the state secretariat. Even though medicines and vaccines are available, he said there was still a shortage of oxygen.