Mumbai: 25,833 new cases of corona were registered in Maharashtra on Thursday, the highest number of corona cases reported in a single day. A day after Corona’s 25,833 cases, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that lockdown is an option but he is confident that people will follow the Corona Guidelines on their own.
The COVID-19 situation has become grimmer as the number of new cases on Thursday crossed the earlier highest rise which was recorded in September, he conceded.
“I see lockdown as an option going ahead. But I trust people of the state to cooperate (and follow the COVID-19 norms voluntarily) like the last time,” he said.
When the pandemic began last year, there was nothing to fight the virus with, Thackeray said.
“But now at least we have vaccines as a shield. The priority now is to ensure that everyone is vaccinated. People should come forward to take the vaccine,” he said.
The Union government has assured that there would be no shortage of vaccines, he said.
There have been a few instances where a person caught infection after vaccination, but such cases are not “life- threatening”, the chief minister said.
