The cyclone forming in the Arabian Sea, is expected to come close to Mumbai on May 15 and 16, according to the BMC, as per information received from the India Meteorological Department. As the cyclone, named Tauktae, could affect Mumbai, Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has instructed all concerned agencies to be alert. 

Hospitals have been instructed to keep generators and other necessary alternative arrangements ready in case of power outage owing to strong winds. Vacant beds in several civic and government hospitals have been identified, for shifting patients from the BKC and Dahisar Jumbo Covid-19 Centres in case of emergency.