With the preparations for the year-end festivities and holiday season scheduled to kick-off next month, and a surge in in-bound travellers from foreign countries expected, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to ramp-up testing to ensure that the COVID-19 infection is under check. The civic body will ensure that those flying into the city get tested and lookout for any new variants of the virus as well.

Currently, the civic body is monitoring the daily cases to see whether there is any rise in view of Diwali. Officials said that the situation was under control, but they plan to conduct aggressive testing to keep the infection under check. Anticipating an increase in the number of overseas travellers coming to Mumbai next month, the civic body plans to keep a close watch on the COVID numbers in the city.