Mumbai | COVID-19
Mumbai registers 8,082 new Covid cases, 'stringent measures' likely if infections cross 20000
Mumbai/IBNS: Mumbai could see 'stringent measures' if daily Covid cases cross the 20,000 mark, the city's civic body chief Iqbal Singh Chahal has told media reports.
"This (more stringent lockdown-like restrictions) was debated and discussed in a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister on December 30. The general consensus was, instead of positivity being a benchmark for putting restrictions, or putting harsh kind of semi lockdowns, the new yardsticks should be your hospital beds availability, and people's oxygen requirement," Chahal told NDTV channel.
"Even if we get 10,000 beds occupied every day, we can handle it," he said, informing that the city has 30,000 beds.
"Right now we believe that even up to 20,000 cases a day, we will be comfortable in our hospitalizations, and comfortable in our oxygen requirement," he told the channel.
Mumbai has registered 8,086 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, of which 90 percent are aymptomatic, official data shows. A total of 574 patients have been hospitalised in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra has recorded 12,160 new cases in the last 24 hours.
However, the state has the most number of Omicron cases in the country.
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