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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: City reports 198 new Covid-19 cases; no vaccination in Thane today
Mumbai city reported 198 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the overall count to 7,39,724. This is the second day in a row this week the city reported new cases below 200. The malls also shut down on Tuesday after being operational for two days. As per the new guidelines, staff who has taken both vaccine doses and had a gap of 14 days from the second dose, will be eligible to work in malls. The mall authorities hence decided to shut many major malls in Mumbai city. Meanwhile, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) said that there will be no vaccination drive on Wednesday. Stay tuned for the latest updates:Read Less
Mass free vax drive breaks Guinness world record
Although the daily Covid vaccination drive has been erratic due to shortage of doses, a mass free vaccination effort in the city funded through corporate social responsibility has found its way into the Guinness World Records. As part of the record-making effort that took around seven days (August 7-14), General insurance Co, ICICI Lombard, and Surana group of hospitals got 30,467 people to sign pledges to get vaccinated. In the same time they vaccinated 32,000 people in slums of Dharavi and Worli. Full story here
End of second wave? Number of sealed buildings in Mumbai falls 98% since April
In yet another sign that the second Covid wave in Mumbai has abated, the number of sealed buildings has dropped by almost 98% in the last four months. Only 21 buildings are sealed across the city at the moment, a huge drop from 970 on April 12. Full story here
Taxi union wants 2-passenger rule to be withdrawn
There is a huge setback for kaali peeli taxi drivers in Mumbai as the govt has continued with the “two passenger” rule despite opening up the trains for the general public. The taxis provide last mile connectivity to commuters alighting from local trains in the island city. Full story here
Man jumps in front of train, dies at Kurla
A man jumped before a running train at Kurla station and died by suicide on Sunday. Police said no suicide note or identification documents were on him. The man was in his 30s and was about 5.5 feet tall, police said. He entered the station from Kurla (W) around 11.45am, shows CCTV footage. He spotted an oncoming down slow local on platform 1 and jumped into its path, lying on the tracks. The train ran over him. He had the name ‘Santosh’ tattooed on his arm.
Police bust bike silencer thieves, held in Kandivli
: A gang of thieves, that stole silencers from cars and separated platinum from the metal for selling it to jewellers, have been busted by the Kandivali police. At least nine silencers have been stolen by the accused. With the arrest, two cases filed at the Kandivli police station were solved. Full story here
Uddhav reviews work on music college under Mumbai University
The state will have the first music college under Mumbai University here to be named as Master Dinanath Mangeshkar International College for Music. Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, while taking a review of the college, told higher and technical education department to develop it to meet international standards. The new college will have a few courses on music, along with diploma and degree courses.
Monorail COO booked by ACB for Rs 20L bribe
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has booked the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Mumbai Monorail for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 20 lakh to clear the bill of a private company which provides services at the monorail. The Mumbai unit of ACB booked Dr DLN Murthy, a class one rank officer under various sections of prevention of corruption act. Full story here