Mumbai: BMC on Monday said it would be careful to rise in the case of Covid-19 and all the possibilities of a new variant next month after the expected increase in travelers from abroad for Christmas and the end of the year.
BMC said there was no increase that was seen in the case after being diwali so far.
However, Civic’s body said the Covid 14 day cycle ended around November 20 and will continue to test aggressively to monitor the situation.
Civil officials said they would become alert in December because they expect an increase in tourists abroad.
Recently, Mumbai International Airport Ltd.
(MIAL) said with the airline which allowed airlines to operate at 100% of their scheduled capacities and the Christmas season marching, passenger traffic edged to the Pre-Covid level.
This is a known fact that because of covid restrictions, some foreign tourists cannot visit Mumbai last year.
Suresh Kakani, Supplementary City Commissioner responsible for the Ministry of Health, appointed news reports that Mumbai Airport had witnessed a record number of passengers.
“In December we hoped to increase international tourists who landed in a good city to meet family or as tourists, given that travel restrictions had subsided and also a large number had been vaccinated.
In addition, socialization might also be at its peak.
Any new variant might be enough To shake the boat and therefore we will monitor it very carefully.
We will ask for traveler testing and also interesting for them with even the slightest symptoms to be tested, “Kakani said, adding this is one reason why they have done a cyclic genome sequencing, which is a study of changes in the structure.
From viruses from time to time periodically.
Officials said the increasing coverage of the city population vaccine was encouraging.
BMC takes various steps to increase vaccination, including calling residents who might have missed their second dose, holding vaccine-on-wheel camps around a high leg area and encouraging housing communities to tell them if someone missed their dose.