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It was an early April day in 2019 – before the past present times of the pandemic – that I went out fishing with Mangesh Sakre and his crew in the waters off Worli Koliwada, a settlement of fishers off Mumbai’s western coast.
The time between December and March is generally peak fishing season. April was still a good time to fish in Mumbai, though Koli fishers were now anxious about getting good catches on the few fishing days that remained before the monsoon arrived.
The water was a beautiful green-blue and very calm. Sakre wasn’t happy seeing it like this. “The water has changed,” Sakre told me when I asked him what he thought of his prospects that day. This colour is not so great for catching pomfret, he said.
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A deserted Nesco vaccination centre on Wednesday after it was closed due to unavailability of vaccine doses
MUMBAI: Citing an acute shortage of Covid-19 vaccines in the city, the civic body on Wednesday requested that only those due for their second doses should approach the centres on Thursday.
The BMC said that 40 of the 73 private vaccination centres will remain shut. All public centres, on the other hand, will open after 12pm as they received a fresh stock of Covishield late on Wednesday.
The BMC, in a statement released on Wednesday, said Mumbai was left with merely 47,740 doses around 2pm. And given the speed of vaccination, the remaining stock was likely to be fully utilised by the end of the day. Vaccination goes on till 8pm at several centres. On Wednesday, 44,629 people were vaccinated, a 39% drop from a record 72,606 vaccinations seen just the previous day. By 4pm, the BMC had tweeted that Worli Koliwada, Maa Hospital, Ramabai Thackeray, M T Agrawal, Wockhardt,Prince