Mumbai: Come March 22, Mumbaikars will need to carry a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test report to enter shopping malls.
If anyone doesn’t have the report, he or she will be tested (rapid antigen) at the entrance. Besides malls, rapid antigen tests will be conducted at other crowded places of the city as well, Hindustan Times reported.
These are among several measures announced by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Friday in the wake of a severe spike in COVID-positive cases in the city and state.
Mumbai saw the highest-ever coronavirus positive cases in 24 hours with as many as 2,877 being infected by the virus on Thursday. Mumbai has 17,153 active cases right now.
Following are the new COVID guidelines issued by BMC:
* No religious/cultural/political gathering allowed
* Cinemas (single screen/multiplex) & hotels to operate at 50% capacity
* 50 people allowed for weddings & 20 for funerals
* All offices, except health & essential, to operate at 50% – work from home advised.
* Residential buildings with more than five active Covid-19 patients will be sealed.
* Compulsory 7-day institutional quarantine for travellers coming to Mumbai from Brazil.
* Hands of citizens instructed to quarantine at home will be stamped.
* Marshals appointed to take action against those travelling in local trains without masks.
* Regular inspection at halls, wedding venues.
* Citizens flouting these rules will be fined, prosecuted.
