Mumbai: With fear of the third covid wave towering above the city, sealing nearly half a dozen buildings and floors in and around the banduk Pali Bandra area in the past week has become a cause of concern for the local population.
The sealing building cannot be a way ahead now, complaining of Pali Hill residents.
With the state government that opens most of the city, limiting their movements now means to pass the work and take payment pieces, they add.
However, BMC officials said that the rules were clear: buildings with more than five cases of Covid would be sealed to curb deployment.
The H-West Ward, which includes Bandra, Santacruz and Khar West, currently recorded the second highest growth in everyday case at 0.07%, which was above the growth of Mumbai’s environment in the case of 0.04%.
Madhu Poplai Pali Hill Resident Association said: “Residents are worried about the entire building sealed as uninfected people unable to remain locked for two weeks, especially now when everyone returns to work.
It can’t be a way forward.” “It’s like Back to March, during the second wave, when the building was sealed.
People still need to take precautionary measures properly and ensure social distance in crowded places even if they have taken a vaccine dose, “he added.
Local Corporator Swapna Mhatre said that even though the number of cases increased, the intensity of symptoms was not severe.
“Most patients recover well in the quarantine of the house.
So far, it’s not as bad as the second wave, when many need to be hospitalized,” added Mhatre.
-Richa Pinto.