The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to be in no mood to bring the city a level up in terms of relaxations even as the situation of bed availability seems to have massively improved. Mumbai’s current bed availability stands at 89 per cent. There are a total of 24,194 beds across all facilities, which include Covid Care Centres, dedicated Covid health centres and dedicated Covid hospitals. Even the oxygenated bed occupancy is currently 16 per cent, way less than the eligible 25 per cent.

Recently, the civic body also decided that their newly constructed Jumbo Covid facilities might not be managed directly by civic staff and would be outsourced based on contracts. While currently over 19,958 beds are lying vacant across all facilities, few other jumbo centres that are under development will add to the number soon. The city currently has 8,114 active cases with about 3,716 asymptomatic, 3,667 symptomatic and 731 critical patients.