Maharashtra tightens Covid-19 restrictions on fears of third wave

Malls, multiplexes, store timings in state to be impacted

Malls and multiplexes in Maharashtra will again have to down shutters and shop timings will get restricted as the state government tightened its Covid-19 curbs on Friday.

For Mumbai, however, it will make little difference because malls and multiplexes are anyway shut in the city.

Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte issued the new order amid the spread of the Delta Plus variant of Covid-19 and fears of a third wave of the pandemic in the next four-six weeks.

The new restrictions were issued even as the state crossed the 30-million vaccination mark, the first in the country to achieve it.

The Maharashtra government had