PMPML staff sanitize the Bus stand at Deccan Gymkhana Bus Stand in Pune on Tuesday. (Express file photo by Ashish Kale)Maharashtra Coronavirus News Highlights: Maharashtra on Sunday reported 5,369 new coronavirus positive cases, which took the state’s infection tally to 16,83,775, the health department said. The death toll crossed the 44,000-mark as 113 patients succumbed to the infection. The fatality count now stands at 44,024, it said.
Out of the total number of cases during the day, 908 were reported in Mumbai, where 25 patients died. With this, the number of positive cases in the metropolis has reached 2,58,405 and fatalities 10,318. Pune district in Maharashtra reported 717 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, taking the caseload to 3,24,294, a health official said. With 27 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the death toll in the district reached 7,907, he added.
Meanwhile, Mumbai Police arrested 196 people from a bar and a pub in suburban Andheri in the wee hours of Sunday for allegedly violating the lockdown guidelines, a police official told PTI. Acting on information, the city police’s social service branch raided the bar and the pub located in Sakinaka area of Andheri.
Officials of the Pune Cantonment Board and Pune Police penalise people roaming without masks inside Market Yard on Tuesday. (Express photo by Ashish Kale)
Nearly 35 per cent of the 25 lakh-odd population in Pimpri-Chinchwad ? almost 8.5 lakh residents ? have developed Covid-19 antibodies, according to a sero-survey conducted by the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and Dr D Y Patil Medical College and Research Institute. Read More
After witnessing a drop in the number of active Covid-19 patients for over a month, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Saturday registered a slight increase as the number of new patients was higher than those who recovered, for the first time since September 25. On Saturday, the PMC registered 373 new cases, taking the total number of patients to 1,61,334, while 350 patients recovered from the infection. The number of active cases rose to 5,612 from 5,605 on Friday. Read more here
Maharashtra on Sunday reported 5,369 new coronavirus positive cases, which took the state's infection tally to 16,83,775, the health department said. The death toll crossed the 44,000-mark as 113 patients succumbed to the infection. The fatality count now stands at 44,024, it said. A total of 3,726 patients recovered during the day. With this, the number of active cases came down to 1,25,109, the department said in a statement. The recovery count in the state has reached 15,14,079, it said.
Pune district in Maharashtra reported 717 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, taking the caseload to 3,24,294, a health official said. With 27 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the death toll in the district reached 7,907, he added. Of the 717 cases, 377 were detected in areas within the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits, which has recorded 1,61,711 cases so far, he said. "However, 240 patients were discharged from city hospitals," the official said. With 143 new cases, the tally in Pimpri Chinchwad industrial township rose to 87,883, he said. (PTI)
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Mumbai teemed with street vendors who provided a variety of services in the city’s informal economy. From ear cleaners to roadside bone-setters, to barbers who used to operate from under the shade of trees — the pandemic has hit the hardest businesses that operate beyond government oversight and without labour protection.
The Indian Express takes a look at what has happened to such workers, who used to add so much to Mumbai’s life.
High rises and residential complexes in Mumbai’s northern suburbs — Borivli, Kandivali and Malad — continue to pose a challenge to the civic body in managing Covid-19 situation. According to the BMC data, the highest number of sealed buildings are located in R Central ward, which covers Borivli and Gorai areas, which have recorded the highest active Covid-19 cases. Read More
Compare with September, October recorded a staggering 70 per cent drop in Covid-19 cases in Pimpri-Chinchwad. The civic administration, however, reiterated that it is too early to say the situation is fully under control. Read More
Mumbai Police arrested 196 people from a bar and a pub in suburban Andheri in the wee hours of Sunday for allegedly violating the lockdown guidelines, a police official told PTI. Acting on an information, the city police's social service branch raided the bar and the pub located in Sakinaka area of Andheri, he said. The police subsequently arrested 196 people, including 171 male and female customers, 19 workers, two owners of the facilities, three managers and a cashier, the official said. Restaurants and bars were allowed to operate at 50 per cent seating capacity from October 5.
Bharat Biotech is planning to launch its vaccine for COVID-19 in the second quarter next year if it gets the requisite approvals from the Indian regulatory authorities, a top company official said.
It said its immediate focus is to conduct the Phase 3 trials successfully across sites in the country.
The company’s vaccine candidate -Covaxin- has been developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – National Institute of Virology (NIV) using inactivated Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus was isolated in an ICMR lab.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has collected at least Rs 3.4 crore in fine from people caught not wearing masks in public places, officials said on Friday. To curb a post-festival spike in Covid-19 cases, the BMC has increased inspection drives in the city, with the violation attracting a penalty of Rs 200.
Between April 8 and October 29, the highest defaulters were found in ward L of the city, that covers areas such as Sakinaka and Kurla, at 10,929. It was followed by ward K west, which covers Andheri West and Juhu, at 8,890 defaulters. K west ward also has the second highest active Covid-19 cases in the city at 1,491, as of October 29. After threats of legal action were deemed inadequate, officials in the area had recently made 35 violators perform community service by cleaning up roads.
Doctors at Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) hospital have now started pushing the state government to consider converting GT hospital back into a non-Covid facility, as routine non-Covid procedures have been on hold since March.
The state medical education department gave its unofficial nod to start non-Covid procedures at the hospital, but the process may still take a few more days.
The city is witnessing a gradual decline in active Covid-19 caseload with around 1,000 to 1,200 new cases daily and 100 to 150 hospital admissions.