Cinema halls, restaurants to function at full capacity in 14 Maha districts including Mumbai

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Mumbai: Easing curbs imposed to contain COVID-19, Maharashtra government on Wednesday said shopping complexes, restaurants, cinema and theatre halls in 14 districts including Mumbai will be allowed to operate at 100 percent capacity.

A government notification said these are districts where first vaccination dose is more than 90 percent, second dose over 70 per cent, positivity rate less than 10 percent and bed occupancy of oxygen supported or ICU bed is less than 40 percent. The 14 districts are: Mumbai city, Mumbai suburban, Pune, Bhandara, Sindhudurg, Nagpur, Raigad, Wardha, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sangli, Gondia, Chandrapur and Kolhapur. 

All shopping complexes, cinema halls, restaurants and bars, sports complexes, gyms, spas, swimming pools, religious places, drama theatres (natyagrihas), tourist places, entertainment parks etc are allowed to operate with 100 percent capacity in these districts, the notification said.

For other administrative units excluded from this list, these shall operate at 50 percent of the capacity, the notification said.