aurangabad district collector sunil chavan on wednesday evening issued a strict warning to shopkeepers asking them to shut their businesses and establishments by 9 pm to contain the spread of covid19he said that licences will be cancelled if anybody is found violating the norms even if their establishments were found to be halfshutteredthe issue of hotels and other establishments running beyond the permitted time in the district came up at a meeting chaired by the district collector the peoples representatives expressed concern over the situation following this chavan issued the orderswhile urging the businesses to start shutting their shops by 830 pm chavan appealed to the people to cooperate in the fight against covid meanwhile the district administration said as many as 329 covid cases were reported by wednesday late night taking the total number of cases to 31772four covid deaths were reported by late wednesday night taking the death toll to 890as many as 24692 patients have recovered while there are 6190 active cases