A new guideline may be issued today; Preparations for Night Curfew and Ban on Christmas-New Year Parties

In view of the increasing threat of Omicron in Maharashtra, the state government may impose new restrictions from today. Speculations are being made that its guidelines will be released before evening. Actually, the government is worried about the crowd gathering on Christmas and New Year. In view of this, orders can be given for night curfew, limited number of parties and no gathering at workplace.

Many decisions have been taken on this in the meeting of the Kovid Task Force which lasted till late Thursday. CM Uddhav Thackeray was associated with video conferencing in this.

State Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said in the assembly on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very serious about the Omicron variant and the idea of ​​imposing a night lockdown in the entire country is going on at the national level.

On one hand the number of Omicron patients is increasing, while on the other hand, 602 new Kovid patients of 39423 testing have been found on Thursday in the routine investigation being done in Mumbai, before 629 new patients were found on 6 October. At the same time, 1179 new patients have been found in the state. In the last 24 hours, 17 patients have died in the state, out of which one death has been registered in Mumbai. The number of active patients in the state has increased to 7897, out of which 2813 active patients are in Mumbai.