The prisoner, identified as Vishal Anand Dasari, died at St George Hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday morning, a jail official said.
Daily rise in cases in the country’s financial capital remained below 4,000 for the sixth day in a row.
Last month, the police issued two summons (on April 26 and April 28) to Shukla, asking her to appear before the BKC cyber department in Mumbai for recording her statement.
He said though some districts have shown a steady decline in COVID-19 cases, some others are still exhibiting an upward trend, but the number of patients under treatment has dropped from what it was in April-end.
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“Maharashtra reported 63,282 new cases, 802 deaths and 61,326 discharges in the last 24 hours”, as per the state health bulletin on Saturday.
Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who is also Guardian Minister for Pune, received the refrigerators and distributed them to various health care centres for the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination programme in the district.
A native of Nagpur, Andhare (87) was venerated in Maharashtra media circles and known for playing a crucial role in the implementation of the first wage board for journalists.
The chief minister spoke to district collectors, divisional commissioners and municipal commissioners virtually to take a stock of the pandemic situation, said an official release.
The grim prediction by Tope came on a day when Maharashtra, the state worst-hit by the pandemic in the country, recorded 66,159 fresh coronavirus cases and 771 fatalities.
The complainant — Police Inspector Bhimraj Ghadge — in his statement has said that when he was posted at Bazarpeth police station, Kalyan, in 2015, Singh was Thane CP at that time.
He said all members of the cabinet, who participated in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, pitched for such extension.
The state recorded 524 deaths — down from the highest 832 on Sunday, taking up its toll to 65,284 now, the worst in the country.
As per the data, Mumbai’s case recovery rate has improved to 87 per cent and the overall growth rate of cases has fallen to 1.09 per cent. At the same time, the doubling rate of cases is improved to 62 days.
Surpassing the previous high of 773 deaths (April 23), the latest fatalities took the state toll to 64,760 now, the worst in the country.
“The vans are sanitised once every day in the morning,” he added. Rawal further said that he is ready to provide his vanity vans to hospitals as well.
Pawar was speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with senior officials to review the COVID-19 situation in Pune.
These vials were seized during the raids conducted by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) and the police department in different parts of Maharashtra in March and April, an official said.
Out of the 662 new cases, 354 were reported from Osmanabad tehsil alone.
Against this backdrop, a Twitter user named Ashwin Vinod tagged the Mumbai police and tweeted that he wanted to meet his girlfriend, and asked which sticker he should use for his vehicle to move out.
They have continued with the task even during Ramadan and observing their roza (fasting during the Muslim holy month).
As per the orders, attendance in government offices reduces to 15%, except departments engaged in emergency services.
In a grim prediction, the Maharashtra government has indicated that the real horrors of Covid-19 may unfold in the next 10 days with a steep spike in ‘active cases’ in the worst-hit state in the country, here on Wednesday.
The entire state machinery is trying hard to minimise the COVID-19 spread and we will not let the morale of health workers get affected due to such incidents, the chief minister added.
The municipal corporation immediately shifted the cylinders from the other facilities where oxygen demand was not high.