State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said after the weekly Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that there are no relaxations in the Level 3 restrictions so far and that a flat Covid-19 curve is not enough to lift curbs. In another decision, the Cabinet also exempted fully vaccinated domestic passengers from carrying a Covid-19-negative RT-PCR report while arriving in Mumbai. Tope said that the decision had been approved in the weekly Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Mumbai’s civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal had written to Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte seeking the exemption. Tope also acknowledged requests from the business community to allow fully vaccinated people to operate for longer hours. However, a decision on this has not been made yet.