AMID fears of a resurgence of COVID-19 cases due to migrants returning from their hometowns and after the festival season, cases continue to remain low and the test positivity rate (TPR), too, has gone down after Diwali. Even as the discussion on vaccines intensifies, the BMC is going to reduce neither testing nor the number of COVID hospitals and centres, amid the fear of the second wave in January-February.

Apart from testing arriving passengers, various multi-level steps have helped control the numbers.