Mumbai:   Maharashtra is contributing most in the covid tally of India which has left citizens worried. While people thought that we are moving towards an end of Coronavirus the recent surge in Covid cases has alarmed the citizens and the government. The Uddhav govt decided to implement some strict measures to stop the spread of Coronavirus which might push India towards another lockdown which was the most difficult time in everyone's life. 


The Uddhav Thackeray government on Monday issued fresh Covid guidelines amid a surge in coronavirus infections in the state.


Here's the complete list of new Covid guidelines issued by the Maharashtra government:


All cinema halls (single screens and multiplexes) hotels/ restaurants/ shopping malls to operate with the following restrictions:



  1. No entry will be allowed without proper wearing of Masks. 

  2. Temperature measuring devices to be used to ensure no one with fever gets an entry. 

  3. Adequate hand sanitisers to be kept at various convenient locations. 

  4. Concerned establishments to ensure the presence of enough manpower to enforce wearing of masks as well as maintaining social distances by all visitors all the times.

  5. Mall management to ensure that theatres/ restaurants or any other establishments in the mall adhere to restrictions imposed herein or before and in operation now.

  6. Violation of norms will result in the shutting down of the establishment as long as the Central government's notification of the COVID-19 pandemic as a "disaster" is in force, the Maha notification said.


The government also issued guidelines for social gatherings



  • No social, cultural, religious gatherings will be allowed, while no more than 50 people will be allowed to be present at weddings. Action will be taken against the owners of premises (such as wedding halls) if these norms are violated, the government said.

  • For the last rites of a person, not more than 20 people will be allowed to be present.

  • In the case of home isolation, the patient must inform local authorities about the medical professional under whose supervision he or she is.

  • A board will be put up on the door for 14 days indicating the presence of COVID-19 patient at the location. Patients will be stamped "home quarantine" on the hand.

  • If patients violate these norms, they will be shifted to covid care centres.

  • For religious places, the Maharahstra government said that the management bodies of all religious places have been asked to decide and declare the maximum number of visitors per hour they will allow, depending on the availability of space for movement and gatheringwith proper distancing.


Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a surge in COVID-19 daily cases, accounting for 78.41 per cent of the new cases, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday