Even as the city recorded no Covid deaths recently, setting a pleasant record for the first in the past 19 months, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is still keeping its guard up. The civic authorities are prepping for the third wave and one of the mandates it has given is to keep all jumbo Covid centres active for another three months. The number of beds at these centres has also increased as well as oxygen facilities.

Officials have been quoted in this paper’s report saying that cases are within limit. Yet warning bells are pealing about the festive season that is upon us. There is a gradual unlocking, and meeting and mingling has started with people readying for Diwali.