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Wajid Kadar Khan, who lives in a Mumbai slum, received a COVID-19 vaccine only because his job required it. His wife, Mumtaz (left), says she didn t need one because “I have God.”
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On a Sunday morning in early April, as Mumbai was in a daze from the first weeks of a surge of COVID-19 and had instituted nighttime curfews, Baliram Boomkar asked his neighbors in the city s Kaula Bandar slum whether they wanted a vaccine to protect them or had received one. Some replied that they had been vaccinated but only because their employers required it. One man said he d get the shot if his company gave him time off to recover from side effects. “COVID is nothing,” he said. “People are only spreading rumors. It s all a lie.” A woman said she was afraid a clinic might test her for COVID-19, find she s positive, and then force her to quarantine as happened last year. “I know I can t avoid the vaccine
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Mumbai crime watch: 8-year-old girl rescued from clutches of kidnapper near Haji Bandar Road
An 8-year-old girl, who was kidnapped from Juhu Chowpatty, was rescued from Sewri area on Wednesday night. The police arrested the accused Irfan Ali Khan 22 hours after rescuing the minor. They have also seized a knife from him.
According to the police, a police patrolling team found a person suspiciously riding on a scooter along with a minor girl at Haji Bandar Road at night. When the police asked him to stop, he tried to escape. The police then intercepted the accused by pulling their vehicle against his scooter. The accused managed to flee; however, the police rescued the girl.