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Mumbai: ‘We will have to impose lockdown in Mumbai if daily COVID cases cross the 20,000-mark’, says Mayor Kishori Pednekar

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Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has said that if the Covid cases touch 20,000 mark then lockdown will be imposed.

“We will have to impose lockdown in Mumbai if daily COVID cases cross the 20,000-mark,” Pednekar told news agency ANI.

Mumbai on Monday recorded 8,082 fresh Covid-19 infections, the highest daily count after April 18, 2021, taking the caseload above the 8-lakh mark, while two more patients lost their lives due to the infection, the city civic body informed.

Mumbai also registered 40 fresh cases of the new coronavirus variant Omicron, taking the number of such infections to 368 in the city, according to the Maharashtra government’s health department.

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