Even as the state will allow people, who have taken both doses of the vaccine, to use the local train and enter shopping malls from August 15 onwards, health experts feel that people must proceed with caution amidst the looming threat of Delta variants.

Despite 289 new Covid-19 cases in Mumbai on August 12, the unlocking of commercial activity for longer hours in view of Independence Day and impending religious celebrations has worried many. The recent Covid-attributed singular deaths of fully vaccinated women in Mumbai and Raigad have also raised several red flags.