BMC: COVID-19 negative report must for visiting malls in Mumbai

Mumbai reported as many as 2877 new COVID-19 cases and 8 deaths in the last 24 hours on Thursday as per the state health department.

Amid the rising covid cases the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made a COVID-19 negative report mandatory for entering shopping malls. From March 22, citizens will have to show a covid-19 negative report if they want to visit any mall in Mumbai

If the visitors fail to show negative report, they will have to get an antigen test done at the mall itself. For this, all malls across Mumbai will soon have a Rapid Antigen Test facility, the BMC said in a statement on Friday. A team will be designated at the entrance for this very purpose, it added. 

Meanwhile, the city's recovery rate has risen to 91% now while its growth rise has soared to 0.51% as Mumbai locals reopen for the general public under restricted timings. BMC reported that 36,37,930 samples have been tested to date with a 9.62% positivity rate