Just a day after Mayor Kishori Pednekar said that the third wave of the pandemic had already arrived, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that they will closely monitor the cases in the city till October 5, as most of the people who are travelling due to Ganeshotsav would return by then. Further, civic officials said that the peak of the third wave was expected to be less than that of the second and daily cases would in all probability be below 10,000, as majority of the people are vaccinated.

The officials further said that the daily cases went up in the first five days of September but then dipped again, so this cannot be termed as the start of the third wave. However, they added that the third wave would reach its peak at a slower pace than the second.