After a fresh spike in coronavirus cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday, February 18, has clamped down with fresh safety measures.
Moreover, the civic body has also decided to register offences against people who violate safety guidelines. In the light of a rise in COVID- 19 cases. BMC has intensified action against people found without wearing face masks in public, and will take action against function halls, gymnasiums and other establishments that don't follow safety norms, the official said.
BMC has decided to fine function halls, gymnasiums and restaurants if the number of patrons/ attendees is found to be beyond the permissible limit, Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner.
These establishments will be prosecuted if they continue to flout the norms, he said.
The permissible limit of guests at function halls is 50, while restaurants are allowed to operate with 50 per cent occupancy at any given time.
"If it is found that masks are not being used and more than 50 people are found gathered at the same time, then the concerned persons will be fined. Establishments and management will also be prosecuted," the BMC release stated.
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The BMC officials would also ensure that there is no overcrowding at restaurants, bars, function halls, public gardens, nightclubs and cinema halls.
In a meeting with ward officers and health department officials, BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal ordered the deployment of additional marshals on suburban trains and also directed to ramp up testing, an official said.
The civic body has decided to resume stamping of the hands of people who are placed under home quarantine, and in case of violation, an offence will be registered against them.
Similar action will be taken against those who flout the rules at weddings and other social gatherings in the city and BMC teams will raid event venues, he said.
The civic body has also decided to double the number of clean-up marshals, who can impose fine on those who do not wear a mask in public, from 2,400 to 4,800. At least 300 clean-up marshals will be deployed on suburban trains.
Buildings with more than five COVID-19 patients will be sealed, the BMC has decided.
If an asymptomatic patient steps out of the house or walks around in a public space before home quarantine period is over, housing societies should inform Ward War Rooms, the civic body said. Officials at Ward War Rooms should take legal action against such patients and put them under compulsory institutional quarantine, it said.
Apart from this, the civic body said a seven-day institutional quarantine is mandatory for travellers arriving at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport from Brazil, where a new strain of the virus has been found.
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