BMC undertaking a sanitisation drive at Byculla,Mumbai. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Thane, Pune Coronavirus Live Updates: The number of new coronavirus cases crossed the 10,000 mark in Nashik on Tuesday to reach 10,064 total cases in the district
Maharashtra recorded 8369 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday taking the total count to 3.27 lakh. The state reported 246 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 12,276. Mumbai currently has a caseload of 1,03,262 with the addition of 995 new cases, while the death toll increased to 5,814 after 62 more patients succumbed to the infection, the city’s civic body said.Pune district on the other hand touched 56,416 after 2,403 people tested positive in the last 24 hours. The death toll increased by 55 during this period to reach 1,442.
A total of 7,188 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, taking the number of recovered cases until now to 1,82,217. In the last 20 days of July, Maharashtra has recorded 1.52 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases. The number of COVID-19 cases increased by 68 to 1,416 in Amravati. Two cases have been reported from Chikhaldara, a famous hill station in Vidarbha region, which had remained unaffected so far.
Nearly four months after the state government restricted inter-district travel as part of the lockdown, Transport Minister Anil Parab has said that the state is looking at allowing people to travel to Konkan for the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi, beginning August 22.
Health workers share photos of each other wearing PPE gear, at a screening camp in Mumbai (Expres photo by Amit Chakravarty)
A shopkeeper in suburban Mahim has been taking care of an elderly man suffering from partial paralysis who was abandoned on streets by his Pune- based family four months ago when the lockdown came into force. Pradeep Shinde was forced to make a home outside a shop in Shanti Niketan building on Lady Jamshedji Road after his family members left him there to fend for himself.
With partial paralysis restricting his movement, Shinde finds it difficult to walk and would often be seen in a helpless state, said Faiz Sheikh, who owns a dairy shop in the locality. 'When Shinde uncle told me about his plight, I provided him food during the lockdown. But things got worse
with the arrival of monsoon and he was left with no safe shelter,' Sheikh said.
At one point, the elderly man fell very ill due to the weather and had to be taken to a civic-run hospital nearby, he said.
Over 2 lakh cases of violation of prohibitory orders have been registered in Maharashtra till date since the coronavirus-induced lockdown was imposed in March, an official said on Wednesday. At least 2,01,158 cases of lockdown violations have been registered, in which 31,424 people have been arrested since March 22, the official said.
The state police force, which has been instrumental in implementing the prohibitory orders during the lockdown, is severely hit by the viral outbreak, he said. As many as 89 police personnel, including seven officers, have succumbed to the deadly infection, while 1,583 are presently undergoing treatment at various hospitals, the official said.
With the death of 52 personnel, the Mumbai police is the worst-affected force in the state, he added.
With 102 of its staff members succumbing to Covid-19, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is perhaps the worst affected among government agencies battling the pandemic in the country.
Till July 11, a total of 2,198 BMC workers had tested positive. The Indian Express spoke to the family members of five who died.(Read Laxman Singh's report here)
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the state government that how a physically fit person above the age of 65 is expected to live a dignified life if he is not allowed to go out and earn his livelihood. The statement was made in response to a petition that challenged the government prohibiting any cast/crew members above the age of 65 on the sets of films and tv shows as part of their guidelines issued on 30 May.(With PTI inputs)
The number of new coronavirus cases crossed the 10,000 mark in Nashik on Tuesday to reach 10,064 total cases in the district along with 412 fatalities. Over the last 48 hours, 573 people were detected with COVID-19 while 22 people lost their lives due to the infection. Out of the total cases Nashik city accounts for 6,109 and Malegaon 1,204.The number of persons discharged so far is 6,970.(With PTI inputs)
The number of new coronavirus cases in Pune district touched 56,416 after 2,403 people tested positive in the last 24 hours. The death toll increased by 55 during this period to reach 1,442. Out of these 1,452 cases were reported from Pune city, 560 from Pimpri Chinchwad. A total of 805 patients were discharged during the day as well, a health official said.(With PTI inputs)
The coronavirus situation "is in control" in Mumbai with the number of positive cases daily being reported below 1,500, BMC's additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani has said, PTI reported. He added that the city is conducting 6,000 to 7,000 tests daily and that most citizens are implementing covid prevention measures.
After focussing on slum areas, BMC will now focus on residential buildings and housing societies for raising awareness about hygiene, cleanliness, social distancing etc. Guidelines will soon be issued for housing societies to ensure they do not allow outsiders without masks, he said.
Kakani also said that Ganesh mandals in the city have been asked to keep the Ganpati festival celebrations simple and low-key this year and focus on social service.
The maximum drop in active cases has been noticed in Mumbai, Akola, and Gondia over the last one month, data analysed from state government records show.Till June 20, Mumbai had 44 per cent active Covid-19 cases out of the total 65,239 infections it recorded. By July 20, it had only 23 per cent active infection of the total 1.02 lakh cases. In the same period, Akola saw a drop from 30 per cent to 15 per cent in active infection cases and Gondia saw a drop from 32 per cent to 13 per cent active infections.(Read Tabassum Barnagarwala's report here)
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