Mumbai to continue level 3 of COVID-19 restrictions amid Delta Plus variant threat

Mumbai will continue to be in category 3 of the Maharashtra government's five-level unlock plan, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. 

New Delhi: After Delta Plus variant cases were detected in Maharashtra which claimed one life, the state government decided to impose stricter restrictions. Mumbai, which has also reported cases of the new Delta mutant, will continue to be in category 3 of the Maharashtra government's five-level unlock plan, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Friday (June 25).  The decision was taken in the wake of the Uddhav Thackeray-led government amending its five-level unlock plan implemented earlier this month. The government announced state-level trigger for imposing restrictions in administrative units irrespective of weekly positivity rate and oxygen bed occupancy percentage, PTI reported. This implies that all administrative units, including Pune and Thane, will be placed under a minimum of level 3 restrictions.  “State-level trigger means that irrespective of the weekly positivity rate and oxygen bed occupancy, level 3 restrictions will continue in administrative units till the district disaster management authority takes a call to withdraw them,” a state government notification said.