The Cordelia cruise ship returned from Goa to Mumbai after 66 passengers on board tested positive for COVID-19. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty)
A day after 66 people on board the Cordelia Empress tested positive for Covid-19 in Goa, the cruise ship returned to Mumbai where municipal officials waited to screen over 2,000 passengers on board.
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani said: “Our team is already there at the docks. They will test everyone by Tuesday night and those positive will be taken to the Richardson & Cruddas Covid treatment and isolation centre. Almost all passengers are residents of Mumbai, so we can’t deny them entry.”
Mumbai Congress chief Bhai Jagtap said that property tax on houses up to 500 sq ft must be waived off with retrospective effect from 2020. This comes in the wake of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s statement on Saturday that houses up to 500 sq ft area will be given waiver in property tax from 2022.
Jagtap also said that houses between 500 to 700 sq ft area should be given concession of 60 per cent in property tax.
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