Mumbai: Nearly 572 Indians who were stranded abroad due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown landed at the Mumbai international airport early Sunday morning, a Maharashtra government official said. Of these, passengers belonging to Mumbai were kept under mandatory institutional quarantine in hotels near the airport, while those hailing from other cities were taken to their respective […]
Read MoreMumbai: The number of COVID-19 patients in Dharavi, Mumbai’s biggest slum sprawl, reached 808 on Friday as 25 more persons tested positive for the infection, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The death toll in the area also rose to 26, he said. Although the death toll increased on Friday, no […]
Read MoreMumbai: Maharashtra on Thursday reported 1,216 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally of coronavirus positive cases in the state to 17,974, a health official said. This is the second largest single-day figure of positive cases, the official said. The state also reported death of 43 more COVID-19 patients- 24 of them in Mumbai – taking […]
Read MoreMumbai: Fire broke out at a factory in Nashik on Thursday evening, police said. The fire broke out at a pharmaceutical packaging factory at Satpur near Nashik, a police official at the Satpur police station told PTI over phone. The fire was extinguished with the help of two fire tankers, he said. There are no […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and a CISF official succumbed to the COVID-19 infection as active positive cases of the pandemic in various paramilitary forces neared 500, officials said on Thursday. These are the first coronavirus fatalities in these two paramilitary forces. The Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) — comprising the Central […]
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