Mumbai News in Photos: Top stories on May 5, 2021

As the city reels with an acute shortage of coronavirus vaccines, huge crowds gathered outside vaccination centres in Mumbai on Wednesday. Beneficiaries stood under the scorching sun for hours to receive the jab, but some of them were turned back disappointed due to limited vaccine stocks. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

The crowd of beneficiaries waiting outside the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) vaccination centre turned uncontrollable on Wednesday. Several tried to jump barricades to get their vaccine doses and it even resulted into a stampede-like situation outside the centre. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

People even argued with healthcare workers and police personnel present at the centre. They complained of the long waiting hours every day and expressed their disappointment over the shortage of vaccines. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

The Ram Roti Group offered free drinking water and biscuits to the people who were waiting in queue outside Kandivali's Shatabdi Hospital for COVID-19 vaccine. Photo by Uma Kadam/BCCL

Amid a paucity of medical supplies, 81,000 vials of Remdesivir from the US arrived early on Wednesday morning in Mumbai. "Further elevating the India and United States Strategic Partnership. Appreciate the shipment of over 81,000 vials of Remdesivir from the US that arrived early this morning in Mumbai (India)," MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a tweet. Photo: MEA

The Thane Municipal Corporation along with MMRDA has started an oxygen plant near Jupiter hospital on the Eastern Express Highway. Inaugurated by guardian minister Eknath Shinde on May 1, it has pressure swing adsorption oxygen-generation technology and will be supplying oxygen to 300 beds. Photo by Anil Shinde/BCCL

Local residents in Bandra came out in opposition to the large number of tetrapods which were relocated from Haji Ali where the Mumbai coastal road works are in progress to Bandra bandstand. Locals said that the tetrapods are lying stacked up along the sea front since the past few months and with the upcoming monsoon season, the same could be a danger in case any one climbs upon them. Photo by by Sanjay Hadkar/BCCL

As temperature soars in Mumbai, a group of boys were seen enjoying their time taking a dip in the cool waters of the Arabian Sea. They were spotted swimming at the Worli Koliwada beach on Wednesday in Mumbai. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Wednesday took to the streets of Kandivali in Mumbai to protest against the alleged atrocities on its party workers in West Bengal by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government there. Photo by Uma Kadam/BCCL

In two separate operations, NCB Mumbai intercepted a parcel carrying 2 kgs of Pseudo-Ephedrine concealed at the bottom of 9 hotpots in Andheri and also arrested a 62-year-old man travelling from Delhi to Mumbai via train with 70 grams of heroin.