ANI, the BMC Mayor said, "I think a complete lockdown should be imposed looking at the current Covid-19 situation."This comes as 8,839 Covid-19 cases were reported in Mumbai on Friday.
Meanwhile, as many as 63,729 new Covid-19 cases and 398 deaths were reported in Maharashtra in a span of 24 hours, taking the total active cases in the state to 6,38,034.India has a double mutant virus variantAs the country's daily tally of Covid-19 infections surged by a record 200,000-plus cases for three consecutive days, public health experts worry that a new -- possibly more virulent -- coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people.The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to be.