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Mumbai Won’t Go Into Lockdown Even if Cases Rise, Chahal Says

A health worker takes a nasal swab of a passenger during a Covid-19 screening at a railway platform in Mumbai on Jan. 6.Photographer: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

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By Dhwani Pandya

January 6, 2022 at 3:58 PM UTC

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Mumbai, India’s financial capital, has no plans to shut down even as it reported 20,181 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the city’s municipal commissioner said.

Mumbai has already banned large gatherings and also put restrictions on the number of people that can attend events. No lockdown and no further restrictions are planned even if cases were to rise, Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said in an interview with Bloomberg News.