Faced with a sudden spike in COVID cases over the past week, the BMC is now looking to revive five jumbo facilities in the city. Up until last month, the civic corporation wasn’t sure if it should continue with at least four centres considering that they had only 5-20 patients and that the cost of their operation ran into lakhs. 

The five jumbo centres have been on standby since June when cases had started receding after the deadly second wave of the pandemic.