The Maharashtra government  relaxed COVID-19 restrictions, allowing restaurants, shopping complexes, cinema halls and theatres to function at full capacity in 14 districts, including Mumbai.

As per the new notification, swimming pools, religious places, entertainment parks are allowed to function at 100 per cent capacity in 14 districts including Mumbai.

The 14 districts include Mumbai city, Mumbai suburban, Pune, Bhandara, Sindhudurg, Nagpur, Raigad, Wardha, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sangli, Gondia, Chandrapur and Kolhapur.

The notification said these are districts where first vaccination dose is more than 90 per cent, second dose over 70 per cent, positivity rate less than 10 per cent and bed occupancy of oxygen supported or ICU bed is less than 40 per cent.

“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 per cent capacity in these districts,” the notification said.

“For other administrative units excluded from this list, these shall operate at 50 per cent of the capacity,” it added.