After much back and forth, the BMC has decided to dismantle its Nesco, Dahisar and Kanjurmarg jumbo COVID centres. The other such facilities in the city will be kept on standby, for now, said officials. Since March, the civic body had been toying with the idea of shutting a few jumbo centres as they barely had any patients and it had to spend on their upkeep. » P03

Following  the sudden surge in infections after March 2020, the civic body scrambled to have more beds for patients. It built seven jumbo centres at BKC, Nesco Goregaon, NSCI Worli, Richardson & Cruddas Byculla, Dahisar, Mulund, and Kanjurmarg, which handled the bulk of the load during the three waves. The centres also drew praise from the Supreme Court.