Mumbai weddings to get postponed as COVID spike forces BMC to suspended marriage registration
The Mumbai civic body, BMC, informed that marriage registration services will restart soon with scheduled appointments.
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Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has temporarily suspended marriage registration services due to the spike in COVID cases in Mumbai.
So people living in Mumbai, planning to get married anytime soon will have to keep their plans on hold till the time the marriage registration resumes.
The Mumbai civic body also informed that marriage registration services will restart with scheduled appointments.
In a tweet BMC said, "The Marriage Registration service is temporarily stopped by @mybmchealthdept
due to the current COVID19 situation in Mumbai. The Service will be restarted very soon with the facility of appointment date and time. Going ahead BMC is also exploring the provision of Video KYC option."
Mumbai on Sunday reported 7,895 new cases of COVID-19. The positivity rate dropped to 13.7 per cent.
As many as 11 people died of COVID in Mumbai on Sunday. There were 60,371 active cases of COVID-19 in the Maharashtra's capital Mumbai.
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