The Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra has improved. As a result, the relaxations on Covid curbs announced earlier will remain in place.
The Maharashtra government had earlier announced that if occupancy of oxygen beds in the state goes above 35,000, the ‘oxygen trigger’ will be activated and Level 1 and 2 relaxations on Covid curbs will cease to exist across the state irrespective of local parameters.
Similarly, if oxygen bed occupancy rises above 45,000, then the state will do away with Level 1, 2 and 3 relaxations and the entire state will be categories as Level 4 and 5.
On June 10, as per figures put out by the government, the total number of oxygen beds occupied across Maharashtra was 20,697. Since this number is less than 35,000, the state-level oxygen trigger has not been activated for the coming week.
Waterlogging has been reported at several places in Mumbai after heavy rain lashed the city on Wednesday morning. Mumbai local train services between Kurla and CSMT have been halted as water submerged tracks between Kurla and Sion stations. Traffic was stopped at 9.50 am, as a precautionary measure to avoid any untoward incident. Traffic will resume as soon as water recedes, Central railway CPRO said.
Submerged railway tracks at Sion station in Mumbai.
“Due to heavy rains in Suburbs and waterlogging at Chunabatti and between Sion-Kurla section, as a precautionary measure, CSMT-Thane mainline services and CSMT-Vashi harbour line services have been suspended from 10.20am and the Trans-Harbour and BSU (Uran) services are running smoothly. Also, Shuttle services between Thane and Karjat/Kasara and Vashi-Panvel are running,” Central Railways said.
Visuals from Sion.
Several parts of the city and suburbs witnessed heavy rainfall along with thunder in the morning.
According to the IMD, the Colaba observatory (representative of south Mumbai) received 77.4 mm rainfall, while the Santacruz observatory (representative of the suburbs) recorded 59.6 mm downpour in the last 24 hours.
As per the BMC, the island city, eastern suburbs and western suburbs recorded 48.49 mm, 66.99 mm and 48.99 mm rain, respectively, in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am on Wednesday.
A high tide of 4.16 metres is expected at 11.43 am, a BMC official said.
The south-west monsoon arrived in Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday, the IMD announced as heavy rains lashed the country’s financial capital and suburbs since early morning. The weather department has predicted a cloudy sky with moderate rain and thundershowers in the city and suburbs and a possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places.
“Southwest Monsoon is likely to advance into more parts of Maharashtra (including Mumbai) today the 09th June and likely to advanced into more parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh; some parts of Odisha and more parts of West Bengal during the next 2 days,” the IMD said.
