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Noted infotech entrepreneur Bhupesh Gupta, who was heading the broadband company D-Vois SSV, died due severe Covid complications early on Wednesday. ​​​He was 56. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vEu3kf

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A policeman suffered injuries after a shopkeeper in Dombivli town in Thane district unleashed his two pet dogs on a police team which visited his shop for flouting Covid-19 norms. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vrE3wQ

The Covid-19 vaccination drive beginning May 1 cannot be launched in Maharashtra because of the unavailabily of sufficient doses of vaccines even as the state on Wednesday extended the current lockdown-like restrictions till May 15 given the rise in the Covid-19 cases. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xvSrGl

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The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to provide anti-Covid-19 vaccines for free to the people in the age group of 18 to 44 years, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2S1L8Wu

Vaccination for the 18-44 age group will be available only in private centres when the next phase begins, the BMC announced on Tuesday. While uncertainty lingers over the launch date of the next stage, the BMC is believed to have assured private hospitals that it will supply them doses. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32S0Fug

The state government has ordered a ‘preliminary inquiry’ into corruption allegations against former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dVedeT

Taking “judicial notice” that furnaces at crematoriums in Mumbai are not in full working condition, the Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the BMC to reply with details of conditions at crematoriums in the city and the number of bodies cremated daily. It also directed the state government to apprise it of measures taken at crematoriums all over Maharashtra. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e2MM2Z

Juma Masjid of Bombay Trust has offered its ground-plus-two-storey premises in south Mumbai to the BMC to start a vaccination centre since the civic body plans to roll out a mass vaccination drive for all aged above 18 years soon. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vmYiMc

At least three patients died in a fire at a private hospital near Thane in the wee hours of Wednesday, an official said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u1nAPH

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Following a surge in Covid cases, the state government is likely to extend lockdown-like restrictions at least by 15 days, from May 1 to 15. A final decision is expected to be taken at the cabinet meeting on Wednesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32W17YC

Maharashtra registered a 70% jump in Covid fatalities on Tuesday and reported 895 deaths, the highest ever so far since the outbreak of the pandemic. With this, the state’s daily case fatality rate (CFR) was 1.3%, up from 0.7% last week. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32WGgEi

With Maharashtra still reporting the highest number of Covid cases in the nation, the state government has floated a global expression of interest (EOI) for procurement of oxygen concentrators, 25,000 MT of liquid oxygen and 10 lakh vials of remdesivir and other medical equipment on an urgent basis. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2R52l0G

The Bombay high court on Tuesday warned it would restrain pharmaceutical companies from supplying remdesivir injections if it finds they are directly supplying it to individuals for distribution. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ns5iEJ

In another stunner, Maharashtra Covid-19 fatalities rose to a new peak on Tuesday with deaths crossing the 66,000 mark and case tally shooting past the 44 lakh level, health officials said here. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xvZWge

Parents of a newly-wed couple were booked by Thane police after more than 100 people were found attending the wedding function flouting social distancing and lockdown norms in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi town. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Prbosr

A civic ward officer and three staffers were beaten up by a mob of hawkers for being stopped from doing business on the road in Nalasopara (east) on Monday evening. The officer sustained injuries. Four men have been arrested. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gVpRZh

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A group of Congress workers allegedly vandalised the office of a food and beverages company at Andheri East in Mumbai on Tuesday over a commercial that allegedly mocked Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gIGA1y

Two people were arrested allegedly with a consignment of 1,500 kilograms of beef being transported illegally from Nashik to Thane, police said on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gLIe2u

An offence has been registered against a minor for allegedly beating a stray dog to death in suburban Santacruz here, police said on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gGlFwf

A 33-year-old man was arrested by the railway crime branch in Navi Mumbai's Panvel area for allegedly robbing train passengers. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gGiWmv

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said the state may receive its supply of 'Covishield' vaccine only after May 20. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32Ro1Af

Adani Electricity recently trained Dahanu tribals and subsequently employed them before distributing locally-produced one lakh masks at Mumbai slums and tribal hamlets. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eFEKMy

A BJP legislator from Kalyan, Ganpat Gaikwad, has scaled down his son’s wedding receiption and has decided to use the money saved to vaccinate around 1,500 people. Gaikwad’s son Vaibhav is slated to tie the knot on May 4. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gLNvaj

Around 75% of cabbies have left the city for their native villages, mostly due to poor earnings or fear of further lockdown, and only about 5,000 taxis are plying on city roads, said taxi union leader A L Quadros. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tZiZgX

Additional director general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Rashmi Shukla has been summoned on Wednesday for her statement in an alleged illegal phone-tapping case registered at Cyber Cell of Mumbai police. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tZiPWT

After the Centre increased the gap between two vaccine shots, activists want it to now allow people to donate blood in the interim period and not wait for 60 days without donating. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sTOrvP

Shiv Sena again targeted PM Narendra Modi through its mouthpiece Saamna for not taking enough precautionary measures at the right time to tackle the second wave of Covid, despite the experts warning before time. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32QsF1p

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Unless the city was assured of adequate vaccine doses for the population in the 18-44 age group by the state government, the BMC may not roll out the drive on May 1, said municipal chief I S Chahal. At the state-level, principal health secretary Dr Pradeep Vyas said it was a “policy under discussion” whether the drive will kickstart in Maharashtra on May 1. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sYA3Cq

There was reason to cheer in Mumbai on Monday as the daily Covid caseload hit its lowest in over 30 days at 3,840. Overall in Maharashtra too, a 23% drop in daily cases resulted in 48,700 people testing positive compared to 66,191 a day earlier. Statewide, cases were its lowest in 24 days but deaths were high at 524. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dQ4o1H

The number of daily Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in Maharashtra hit a record high of 5 lakh on Monday, a day after the state touched a low of one lakh vaccinations due to shortage. The state is hoping to cross the milestone of overall 1.5 crore vaccinations by Tuesday, principal health secretary Dr Pradip Vyas said. Currently, Mumbai, Thane and Pune are the leading districts. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sUUdgP

When Suresh Chavan was looking for a hospital to admit his Covid-positive parents, his neighbours in Katgaon Tanda village, Latur cautioned him against it, saying anyone that old who goes to a Covid hospital never comes back home. His 105-year-old father, Dhenu Chavan, and 95-year-old mother, Motabai, proved everyone wrong. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ewEbo0

Mumbai reported 3,876 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, the lowest daily count since March 30, while 70 more patients succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aCBakL

Among the trains cancelled till May 10 are 02109/10 CSMT-Manmad, 02015/16 CSMT-Pune, 02207/08 CSMT-Latur express and 01131/32 Dadar-Shirdi Sainagar express ( from April 30 onwards) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xsIxVI

Mumbai police is already keeping vigil in order to stop people from flouting covid norms from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vq9NTf

Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is completely confused about the upcoming vaccination drive, a day after state minister Nawab Malik announced that Covid-19 vaccine will be made available free for people in the age group of 18 to 45 years. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vkdlpR

Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) committee chairman Ashish Chemburkar has written to the administration, demanding funds to provide 1,000 fans and 200 air coolers at various bus depots and restrooms for drivers, conductors and other staff. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sPXBt7

Despite Covid-19 restrictions on consumption of liquor in hotels, the excise revenue collection has not dipped much in 2020-21 in Maharashtra. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32Mujkr

With the number of coronavirus cases and deaths rising each day at an alarming pace, active cases in the city's major slum colony Dharavi is inching dangerously closer to the 1000-mark. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nn9Ufj

In 15 out of 36 districts in Maharashtra, the number of people getting discharged is much higher than patients getting admitted in hospital for Covid- 19, which is a "satisfactory and comforting indication", state medical education minister Amit Deshmukh said here on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vhTqrG

Regular motorists can now avail monthly pass for toll payments through FASTag from Tuesday at five entry points in Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Pp9Dw3

A carcass of a 7 feet Indian Ocean humpback dolphin was found at Cuffe Parade beach on Monday afternoon, the second such incident on southern coasts of Mumbai after a dead whale shark was spotted at Sasoon dock in August last year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sRTnBe

Four COVID-19 patients died at Vedanta hospital in Thane in the early morning on Monday, officials said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QU4ooq

The police custody of the two doctors of the Vijay Vallabh Hospital in Mumbai's Virar area was extended till Wednesday by a Vasai court. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xr8hlC

"It is not a wise move to shift our senior municipal nurses from the Airoli and Nerul civic hospitals to a private hospital. Why can't the new medical recruits be posted to Dr D Y Patil hospital for this purpose? The nursing staff are also not happy by this decision of NMMC," said Shinde. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xqbW2X

A total of 6,317 people have been fined Rs 13.99 lakh for not wearing masks amid the coronavirus outbreak in April this year in Raigad in Maharashtra, police said on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sSe686