In Unlock 3.0 the state government has given permission to open shopping complex, malls and market places in all the non containment zones from August 5. But in some places like Kalyan- Dombivli, thane, and Mira- Bhayander where Covid cases are increasing rapidly thier municipal bodies have decided to keep the shutters down.
In Navi Mumbai, civic chief Abhijit Bangar kept the 46 hotspots under lockdown till August 31. On Friday, the area saw its highest single-day spike of 398 cases and seven deaths. The caseload is now 15,385, includes 418 deaths.
According to the latest information shared by the state health department, the number of active cases in the state zoomed above 1.50 lakh of which the lion’s share belongs to Pune and Thane, with Mumbai trailing at a distant third. The death toll has now gone up to 14,994, while the total cases rose to 422,118 – both the highest in the country
Three staffers posted at the Taloja jail tested positive for Covid-19. The wife and son of one of these staffer’s also tested positive on Friday. The Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is now planning to conduct mass antigen testing at the prison.
The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has increased the number of containment zones to 62 from 41, but has allowed and vegetable shops in these areas to function from 9am to 5pm. Earlier only medical shops were allowed to operate in containment zones.
Dharavi, which till early this month had over 500 active cases, now has numbers in two digits. Since the beginning of this week, the number of active cases here have been below 100. While on July 1, active cases in this slum pocket were 535—23% of the total 2,282 cases at the time—they dropped to 98 on July 27 and as on July 31, their count was 77 or only 3% of the total 2,556 cases reported there so far. On May 31, the active cases amounted to 52% of the caseload.
