Now All Cinema Halls, Restaurants, Offices In Pune, Mumbai To Open With Full Capacity; Maharashtra Government Issues Revised Guidelines

Sumit Singh

Mumbai/Pune, 2nd March 2022: As the number of Coronavirus disease (COVID19) cases have dropped drastically in Maharashtra, the state government has allowed most of the establishments to operate at 100% capacity. The new rules will come into effect from March 4.

The order issued by Aseem Gupta, CEO of the State Executive Committee, 14 districts have been classified in category A based on the number of vaccinated people, COVID patients, hospital beds occupancy etc.

Districts falling under Category ‘A’ are 

1. Mumbai City.

2. Mumbai Suburban

3. Pune

4. Bhandara

5. Sindhudurg

6. Nagpur 

7. Raigad

8. Wardha

9. Ratnagiri

10. Satara 

11. Sangli

12. Gondia

13. Chandrapur

14. Kolhapur

As per the order, 

•  Social/ Sports/ Entertainment/ Academic/ Cultural/ Religious/Political/ Festival Related events, including those relating to Marriages and Funerals and other gatherings and congregations, are permitted in Administrative Units included in List A to the extent of 50% of capacity of the venue; however, whenever a gathering is expected to be of more than 1000 persons, District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) shall be informed and DDMA may put reasonable restrictions on the same. For the Administrative Units not finding mention in list A, total attendance in any of such gathering or congregations shall be limited to 50% of the capacity of the venue or 200 whichever is lower.

• Offline classes may resume in all academic institutions, subject to any orders of concerned administrative department of Government of Maharashtra. Administrations of all academic institutions are encouraged to leverage hybrid model of imparting education though online and offline modes. All pre-schools as well as Aanganwadis can now be restarted physically as well. All these institutions, establishments shall scrupulously follow Covid appropriate behaviour (CAB).

• All home delivery services are allowed for all Administrative Units.

• All shopping complexes, cinema halls, restaurants & bars, sports complexes, gyms, spas, swimming pools, religious places, natyagrihas (auditoriums), tourist places, entertainment parks etc. are allowed to operate with 100% capacity in Administrative Units included in List A. For other Administrative Units that are excluded from List A, these shall operate at 50% of the capacity.

• There shall be no restrictions for inter-state and intra-state movement for fully vaccinated persons. For persons who are not fully vaccinated, inter-state movement is subject to production of negative RT-PCR test valid for 72 hours. There shall be no need for any NOC for such travel, not required otherwise than for purposes of DMA.

• All offices, including government and private, may function with full capacity.

• All industrial and scientific institutions may function with full capacity.

• Any activity not included in here, are allowed to the extent of 100% capacity in the administrative areas falling in List A and 50% for the remaining areas. In case of any issues of interpretation, DDMA shall provide the final interpretation.

   
Requirement of being fully vaccinated:

i. All staff of all the establishments that cater to public at large shall necessarily be fully vaccinated.

ii. All home delivery staff shall necessarily be fully vaccinated.

iii. All users of any public transport must be fully vaccinated.

iv. All visitors to malls, theatres, natyagrihas (auditoriums), tourist places, restaurants, sporting events, religious places etc. where general public also visits must be fully vaccinated.

v. DDMAs may enforce requirement of fully vaccinated on any public service wherein there is a possibility of interaction with other citizens and wherein such interaction may cause spread of Covid 19 and wherein Covid Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) may not be effectively implementable.

vi. All staff working in any office or establishment, public or private that has a dealing with general public must be fully vaccinated.

vil. All staff engaged in any industrial activities must be fully vaccinated.

An Administrative Unit fulfilling all the following criteria is included in List A

a. First dose vaccination is more than 90%.

b. Second dose vaccination is more than 70%.

c. Positivity Rate is less than 10%.

d. Bed Occupancy of Oxygen Supported or ICU beds is less than 40%.

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