Lockdown ruled out; Maharashtra govt mulls augmented restrictions

Kakani said the BMC has categorised countries into 3 categories — ultra risk, high risk, no risk. The RT-PCR test is mandatory for travellers coming from ultra-risk, high-risk countries, while random testing will be done for passengers coming from non-risk countries.

Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 18,466 fresh COVID-19 cases, around 52 percent or 6,303 cases more than Monday's tally, and 20 fatalities, the state health department said. With these new additions, Maharashtra's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 67,30,494 and the death toll to 1,41,573, it said.

Maharashtra recorded 75 new cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the count of such cases to 653 so far. Of the 75 Omicron cases, 40 cases were reported from Mumbai, nine from Thane city, eight from Pune city, five from Panvel, three each from Kolhapur and Nagpur, two from Pimpri-Chinchwad, and one each from Bhiwandi Nizampur, Ulhasnagar, Satara, Amravati and Navi Mumbai.