Mumbaikars will soon get some much-needed relief with the BMC considering not extending the night curfew beyond January 5. The decision was taken at a meeting with the municipal commissioner on Monday. The civic body also plans to increase the number of vaccination centres and eventually vaccinate up to 50,000 people daily though it's still not clear how many vaccines it would get from the Centre in the first phase.

The state government had imposed the night curfew from December 22 to January 5 to restrict people from gathering in groups for Christmas and New Year celebrations. A senior civic official said, "As the number of new cases and deaths is on the decline, we don't intend on extending the night curfew." The official added that citizens had behaved responsibly.