Although hardly 10 per cent of the beds are occupied at active quarantine centres (CCC1s, for high-risk contacts) and CCC2s for asymptomatic patients the BMC won’t be shutting them like it did after the first Covid-19 wave abated last year. The centres will remain as buffers for the future.

The step comes amid the warning of a third wave. Right now, cases in the second wave are at their lowest. The city has recorded less than a thousand patients throughout this week so far and the number of active patients has come down to 16,580 from 92,000 in the second week of April. The capacity of active CCC1s is 8,195, of which only 890 beds are occupied.