Mumbai businessman provides vanity vans free of cost to police officials on lockdown duty
Mumbai businessman provides vanity vans free of cost to police officials on lockdown duty
A Mumbai-based businessman Ketan Rawal has provided his vanity vans free of cost to police officials standing for hours on the roads for bandobast lockdown duty.
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UPDATED: April 21, 2021 09:19 IST
Mumbai-based businessman Ketan Rawal has provided his vanity vans free of cost to police officials standing for hours on the roads for bandobast lockdown duty. (Photo: Saurabh Vaktania)
Mumbai-based businessman Ketan Rawal has provided Mumbai police with vanity vans free of cost. Due to lockdown-like restrictions in the state, heavy deployment of police officials stand on the roads for many hours at nakabandis and for bandobast. Rawal felt the vanity vans could make their job a little easier.
During the second wave of the Covid pandemic in India, cases were initially rising in greater volume in Mumbai. But since April 11, Delhi has overtaken Mumbai in terms of daily spike in Covid cases.
Updated Apr 12, 2021 | 13:25 IST
Mumbai on Sunday registered 9,986 new COVID-19 cases and 79 deaths, taking its caseload to 5,20,498 and death toll to 12,023. The number of active COVID-19 cases in Mumbai stands at 92,464. Mumbai: A health worker administers a dose of Covishield vaccine to the citizens at a hospital in Dharavi | Photo Credit: PTI
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday took a decision to convert a few four-star and five-star hotels in the city into COVID centres in a bid to manage the huge coronavirus patient load. Also, three new jumbo field hospitals will be set up in Mumbai.
As per BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, some of the four-star hotels and five-star hotels in Mumbai and suburbs are being requisitioned immediately to set up COVID Care Centre-2 facilities for infected patients.
Highlights
Malls and temples may be shut
Shops may be allowed to open on alternate days
Mumbai: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday (April 1) hinted at imposing strict restrictions in the city in order to curb the rising cases of COVID-19.
He has said that malls, temples and other public spaces which attract large gatherings may be temporarily closed.
The mayor said that shops may be allowed to open on alternate days. Hotels may run with 50 per cent capacity.
Entry of passengers may be closed in local trains except for employees associated with emergency services.
Private offices may be asked to call employees in a staggered manner in different shifts.
Health workers go about screening people for symptoms in Dharavi
MUMBAI: Nearly 21,000 more deaths (about 23%) were recorded last year in Mumbai compared to 2019 it was 1.1 lakh in 2020 and 91,223 the previous year underscoring the impact the pandemic had on the population. The official Covid fatality count is 11,116, which accounts for barely half the spike in mortalities and thus leaves an incomplete picture of the exact toll. The trend has been seen worldwide with a large percentage of excess deaths in the pandemic year not being included in official Covid toll.
Mumbai also had a sharp 19% drop in births last year, reveals BMC data, owing to factors such as the migrant exodus and pregnancies deferred during the outbreak.