With the increasing number of cases of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus, Mumbai police issued a 48-hour ban on Friday in the city, banning large gatherings on weekends.
PTI News Agency quoted a police official as saying that the injunction issued by the Bombay Commissioner’s Office under Article 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) also restricted rallies and protest marches involving people and vehicles in the next two days. According to the police, in view of the threat posed by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a report issued by the Deputy Chief of the Mumbai Police Department (Operations) is necessary, which is said to be highly contagious and capable of frequent mutations. The restrictive order was also issued in the context of violent protests in Amravati and other areas in Maharashtra last week. “The order is issued to prevent the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 from posing a threat to human life, as well as a threat to the law and the law. In the context of the violence in Amravati, Malegaon and Nanded, the state of order,” PTI quoted a person What the senior police officer said.
According to the ban issued by Mumbai, violators will be punished in accordance with Article 188 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and other legal provisions. Maharashtra has reported 695 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths in the past 24 hours. With new infections, the number of cases in Maharashtra has risen to 66,42,372, including 6,534 active cases.
According to the state health department’s announcement, the total number of Omicron variant infections found in the state has also risen to 17 cases. The latest report from the National Institute of Virology shows that Maharashtra has reported 7 new cases of Omicron, of which 3 were in Mumbai and 4 were in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in Pune District.
The three new patients from Mumbai are all males, aged 48, 25, and 37, and have recent travel history to Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, respectively.
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