Amid the massive surge in COVID cases, the civic body on Thursday allowed home quarantine for senior citizens, comorbid elderly persons and breastfeeding mothers with no symptoms. The new rules are in addition to the home isolation applicable to asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic positive patients without comorbidities.

The new category of people will be allowed home quarantine after being evaluated by a medical officer in consultation with the patient’s family doctor. As per the BMC data, nearly 80-85 per cent of cases in the city are asymptomatic and only require home isolation.