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With the increasing number of cases of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus, Mumbai police issued a 48-hour ban on Friday in the city, banning large gatherings on weekends.

PTI News Agency quoted a police official as saying that the injunction issued by the Bombay Commissioner’s Office under Article 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) also restricted rallies and protest marches involving people and vehicles in the next two days. According to the police, in view of the threat posed by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a report issued by the Deputy Chief of the Mumbai Police Department (Operations) is necessary, which is said to be highly contagious and capable of frequent mutations. The restrictive order was also issued in the context of violent protests in Amravati and other areas in Maharashtra last week. “The order is issued to prevent the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 from posing a threat to human life, as well as a threat to the law and the law. In the context of the violence in Amravati, Malegaon and Nanded, the state of order,” PTI quoted a person What the senior police officer said.

According to the ban issued by Mumbai, violators will be punished in accordance with Article 188 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and other legal provisions. Maharashtra has reported 695 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths in the past 24 hours. With new infections, the number of cases in Maharashtra has risen to 66,42,372, including 6,534 active cases.

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According to the state health department’s announcement, the total number of Omicron variant infections found in the state has also risen to 17 cases. The latest report from the National Institute of Virology shows that Maharashtra has reported 7 new cases of Omicron, of which 3 were in Mumbai and 4 were in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in Pune District.

The three new patients from Mumbai are all males, aged 48, 25, and 37, and have recent travel history to Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, respectively.

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Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet talk about their new series Laid, and some of the horrors of dating as millennials.
Imagine a scenario where anyone and everyone you have ever been intimate with begins to die one by one. Is it a curse? If yes, then who is cursed? These are questions that Stephanie Hsu‘s Ruby battles with in the new zany comedy, Laid. Ahead of the show’s release, Stephanie and co-star Zosia Mamet spoke exclusively with HT about their roles, the show’s unique premise, and the horrors of dating as millennials. (Also read: Dune: Prophecy star Emily Watson on working with Tabu: ‘She is a true treasure’)

Stephanie Hsu on her character’s flawed morality

Laid, created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, is the story of Ruby (Stephanie Hsu), who discovers that all her sexual partners are dying one by one, and she must warn them. Helping her in this unique quest is her best friend AJ (Zosia). The fun thing about Laid is that the protagonists are not the usual likeable characters. “She is totally an anti-hero of our story. I really love that,” says Stephanie, referring to Ruby’s moral greyness. “I am not a perfect person and I love playing flawed characters. But it was difficult. The creators told me that she is a total narcissist. But narcissists don’t think they are one, so I had to figure out a way to love her. For me, playing Ruby was about getting into her psychology and finding the innocent part of her – which is that she just wants love,” the actor adds.

While sitcoms usually add the best friend as the voice of reason trope, Laid diverges from that, with AJ even zanier and more morally ambiguous than Ruby. Talking about playing such a colourful character, Zosia Mamet says, “When you play not-so-likable or zany characters, people don’t believe they are that way. I don’t think AJ wakes up every morning and thinks, ‘I am absolutely crazy’. It’s about trusting the writing and finding an organic way into these characters to make them seem grounded, real, and relatable.”

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Stephanie, Zosia reveal the worst gifts they received from partners

In Laid, Ruby gives the gift of death to the men she is with, even if that is inadvertent. Ask the women about the worst ‘gift’ a partner has ever given them, and the discussions veer into the unusual horrors of modern-day dating. “I got a vintage wooden duck decoy from someone. It was broken, and I thought, ‘What does this say about our relationship?’. They didn’t know me well enough to know if I’d want this but also that they gave me something old and ailing,” Zosia says with a laugh.

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