Maharashtra announces five-level unlock plan, process to begin from Monday

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackerayrsquos office late on Friday announced a detailed fivelevel unlock plan for the state based on positivity rate and occupancy of oxygenated beds in each district and cities with corporations The plan will come into effect from June 7As per the plan districts and cities falling in lsquoLevel 1rsquo will have the least restrictions while those in lsquoLevel 5rsquo will have stringent near lockdownlike restrictionsThe decision comes after detailed deliberations of over a week by the state Disaster Management Unit with all other concerned departments and stakeholdersSuburban local trains will not be thrown open for the general public in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region of Mumbai Thane Palghar and RaigadAlso Read Number of fresh Covid19 cases in Mumbai steady againLevels defined by state govtlsquoLevel 1rsquo areas are defined with positivity rate of less than 5 per cent and occupancy of oxygenated beds should be below 25 per centlsquoLevel 2rsquo will include areas with a positivity rate below 5 per cent and oxygenated bed occupancy between 25 per cent and 40 per centlsquoLevel 3rsquo will include area with a positivity rate between 5 per cent and 10 per cent or oxygenated bed occupancy of more than 40 per centlsquoLevel 4rsquo areas are defined with positivity rate between 10 per cent and 20 per cent or oxygen bed occupancy of more than 60 per centlsquoLevel 5rsquo the strictest level areas will be required to have a positivity rate of more than 20 per cent or occupancy of oxygen beds should be more than 75 per centLevel of restrictions for breaking the chain pictwittercomXV27TluWzCmdash CMO Maharashtra CMOMaharashtra June 4 2021Level of restrictions for breaking the chain pictwittercom255YJWvQBcmdash CMO Maharashtra CMOMaharashtra June 4 2021Level of restrictions for breaking the chain pictwittercomEQ8SVmHO77mdash CMO Maharashtra CMOMaharashtra June 4 2021pictwittercomOiiv8xxzMYmdash CMO Maharashtra CMOMaharashtra June 4 2021Activities allowed in various levelsEstablishments dealing with essential servicesAll the shops and establishments will be allowed to function as usual in Level 1 and 2 while they will have to shutter down after 4 pm in Level 3 and 4 areas on all days In Level 5 the establishments will stay open till 4 pm on weekdays and stay shut on weekendsNonessential itemsThe establishments will function as usual in Level 1 and 2 and stay shut after 4 pm in Level 3 They will not be allowed to open at all in Level 5Malls theatres and multiplexesThese establishments can resume normal operations in Level 1 while they will have to function with 50 per cent capacity in Level 2 They will stay closed in Level 3 4 and 5RestaurantsIn Level 1 restaurants can function as usual while in Level 2 they will have to run with only 50 per cent capacity For Level 3 they can have a 50 per cent capacity till 4 pm and will only be allowed takeaway and parcel services after that and on weekends People in Level 4 areas will not be allowed to dine in but only parcel and takeaway services In Level 5 only home delivery is allowed People cannot visit restaurantsMarriage functionsThere are no restrictions on functions in Level 1 areas In Level 2 a marriage ceremony can take place with 50 per cent of hall capacity and a maximum of 100 people The number has been restricted to 50 in Level 3 and 25 in Level 4 Only family members are allowed to be present for functions in Level 5 areasMumbai falls under Level 3 Thane under Level 1As per the data released by the public health department Level 1 districts currently are Aurangabad Bhandara Buldhana Chandrapur Dhule Gadchiroli Gondia Jalgaon Jalna Latur Nagpur Nanded Nashik Parbhani Thane Washim Wardha and YavatmalLevel 2 will have Ahmednagar Amravati Hingoli and Dhule Level 3 will have Mumbai Akola Beed Palghar Ratnagiri Kolhapur Osmanabad Sangli Satara Sindhudurg and Solapur districtsDear Mumbai Municipal Commissioner IqbalSinghChah2 informs that Mumbai shall fall under level 3 as per BreakTheChain orders by the State GovernmentWatch this space for detailed written orders shortlyMyBMCUpdatesmdash Mumbai BMC mybmc June 5 2021Cities like Mumbai and its satellite towns along with Nashik Pune PimpriChinchwad Aurangabad Solapur and Nagpur will be treated as administrative units Officials said that 34 districts apart from Mumbai and its suburbs will be treated as administrative unitsAccording to the notification the situation will be assessed every Thursday by the public health department which will declare the occupancy of oxygenated beds and positivity rate of the state and every districtMaharashtras Covid19 daily deaths and new infections continued to fall but the days toll increased by 1377 which took the total zooming past the 98000 mark on FridayCompared to 553 deaths on Thursday the state declared 1377 fatalities 289 fresh and 1088 previous deaths surpassing the previous peak of 1320 deaths on May 23 to take the toll to 98771The number of fresh cases fell from 15229 on Thursday to 14152 and the state tally rose above the 58 lakh level to 5805565In Mumbai the new infections remained below the 1000 level for the fourth day running dropping from 985 on Thursday to 968 while the city tally rose to 708994