The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ordered its officials to inspect all manholes in the city after a video of two women falling into an open manhole during heavy rain went viral on social media.
The country s financial capital had reported 643 new infections on February 23 this year. After that, the daily COVID-19 infection count in the city had remained in four to five digits for a sustained period during the second wave.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said the Centre s approach against coronavirus, which is the society s biggest enemy at present, should be like a surgical strike instead of standing at the borders waiting for the virus to come out.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni said the Union government s new near to home vaccination programme was like waiting for the virus carrier to come to the Centre. Coronavirus is our biggest enemy. We need to strike it down. The enemy is residing in certain areas and in some people who are unable to come out. Your (government) approach should be like a surgical strike. You are standing at the borders waiting for the virus carrier to come to you. You are not entering the enemy territory, Chief Justice Datta said.