An elderly woman receives Covishield vaccine against the coronavirus at a vaccination center in Mumbai, India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Mumbai News Live: Mumbai on Saturday recorded 247 new coronavirus cases, and two deaths which took the tally of infections in the country’s financial capital to 7,59,328 and death toll to 16,290, a civic official said. The discharge of 331 people during the day took the total recovery count to 7,37,671, which is 97 per cent of the caseload, leaving the city with 2,819 active cases.
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday to mark his weekly presence before the agency. According to ANI, recording of statement of Aryan Khan is going on at Belapur RAF camp in Navi Mumbai by Delhi NCB SIT. Mandatory weekly appearance before NCB was one of the conditions set by Bombay HC while granting him bail in the drugs-on-cruise case.
Meanwhile, Pimpri Chinchwad police have filed another case of job fraud against Kiran Gosavi, the self-styled detective cited as an ‘independent witness’ by the Narcotics Control Bureau in the drugs-on-cruise case.
In other news, a PMLA court Friday sent former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to further ED custody till November 15. Deshmukh was arrested on November 1 in a money laundering case. The ED has claimed that Deshmukh, while in office as the state home minister, “received illegal gratification of approximately Rs 4.7 crore in cash from various orchestra bar owners” between December 2020 and February 2021 through now-dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze.
Mumbai News Live Updates: Mumbai district records 257 new coronavirus infections; active cases at 3,665. Follow this space for the latest updates.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-news-live-updates-covid-19-air-quality-traffic-weather-7620548/
