Mumbai Live News: Five people were killed on Sunday in a collision between a car and a container truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. According to the police, the incident took place at 7:30 am on Sunday, after the car crossed to the opposite corridor on Pune-Mumbai Expressway and rammed into a container truck at Shilatne Phata near Lonavala.
Inspector Praveen More, Lonavala Rural Police station said, “There were five passengers in the car. At Shilatne Phata, the car went out of control of the driver, possibly due to high speed and collided with a container truck moving towards Mumbai. All five have received fatal injuries. We are ascertaining the identities of all the five persons. Three of them are relatives and are from Mumbai. Their family members are being contacted. A probe has been launched into the cause of the accident.”
A day after recording 24,948 Covid-19 cases, the daily caseload in Maharashtra slightly increased to 27,971 on Saturday. The day also witnessed 62 deaths due to Covid-19. With this, the test positivity rate (TPR) – the number of positive cases detected when compared to the total tests conducted – stood at 16.4 per cent in Maharashtra. In Mumbai, of the 38,965 tests conducted on Saturday, 1,411 tested positive with a TPR of 3.6 per cent. The city has 12,187 active Covid-19 cases.
Meanwhile, the BMC is likely to increase allocation for health infrastructure in its upcoming budget for 2022-23, expected to be presented on February 3. In other news, three firemen were injured in an accident during a mock drill in a high-rise building in Matunga east. Also, the state unit of BJP has decided to take Prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ to 75,000 booths across Maharashtra Sunday.
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-live-news-omicron-weather-covid-19-7746826/
