Maharashtra: Crowd seen at Dadar vegetable market in Mumbai this morning. Mumbai reported 8,646 new COVID-19 cases yesterday.
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Coronavirus News Live Updates: Maharashtra Likely to Announce Stricter Restrictions, Kejriwal to Hold Emergency Covid Meet
Coronavirus News Live Updates: Maharashtra continued to report a massive rise in Covid-19 cases with 43,183 fresh cases detected in the last 24 hours. Mumbai was one of the highest contributors recording 8,646 new coronavirus cases within 24 hours, and 18 deaths. In light of the rising cases, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday hinted at a likely restricted lockdown to be announced.
In light of the massive rise in numbers for weeks, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked officials to prepare fresh SOPs on further restrictions to be implemented amid a rise in Covid-19 cases, and deaths.
Some of the restrictions that are likely to be put into place include shops opening on alternate days, local railways only to be used for essential services, religious places, malls and theatres to be shut down and restrictions of private offices as well.
Amitabh Bachchan Receives COVID-19 Vaccine | Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday said he has received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Taking to official blog, the 78-year-old actor revealed that every member of his family, except son Abhishek Bachchan, have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
Alia Bhatt Tests Positive for COVID-19 | Actor Alia Bhatt on Friday said she has tested positive for COVID19 and is under home quarantine. The 28-year-old actor took to Instagram and posted a note, informing her fans that she is currently following all the safety protocols listed by her doctors.
Poush Mela, Basantotsab Suspended to Stem COVID Spread; VC Not at Fault: VBU | Days after Visva Bharati Vice Chancellor (VC) Bidyut Chakraborty wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging alleged threat by TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal for "not opening the varsity campus", the institute on Thursday said certain decisions have been taken keeping in mind the COVID-19 situation. The PM is the chancellor of the central university.
Europe's Vaccination Programme is 'Unacceptably Slow', Says WHO | European nations' immunisation campaigns against COVID-19 are unacceptably slow and risk prolonging the pandemic, a senior World Health Organisation official said Thursday. Dr Hans Kluge, WHO's regional director for Europe, said vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic, but noted that to date, only 10% of Europe's population has received one dose and that only 4% have been fully protected with two doses. As long as coverage remains low, we need to apply the same public health and social measures as we have in the past, to compensate for delayed schedules, Kluge said. Even those numbers hide the true scope of the problems facing the European Union's 27 nations, where only about 5.6 per cent of its people have had a first vaccine shot, according to the bloc. In Britain, that figure is 46 per cent of its population.
India Launches COVID-19 Vaccination for All Above 45 | India launched COVID19 vaccination for all people aged 45 and above from Thursday as the country reported this year's highest single day rise of 72,330 new infections in a span of 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally of cases to 1,22,21,665. Seeking to exponentially expand the countrywide anticoronavirus inoculation drive, the Centre has decided to keep all public and private sector COVID19 vaccination centres (CVCs) operational throughout April, including on gazetted holidays.
Gujarat: Newborn twins tested positive for COVID-19 in Vadodara
"Twins were brought in 15 days after being born with severe diarrhoea and dehydration. They tested positive but are better now. Haven't been discharged yet," said Dr Iyer, Head Dept of Pediatrics, SSG Hospital.
As Mumbai Sees Massive Spike of Over 8,600 Covid Cases, Lockdown Announcement Likely Today | Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has hinted towards a lockdown in the city soon. She told CNN-News18 that an announcement to the effect may be made on Friday.
The city has reported a massive spike of 8,646 new Covid-19 cases within 24 hours, and 18 deaths. The numbers have pushed the total number of cases to 4,23,360 and the death toll to 11,704. Sources in the Maharashtra government had on Wednesday told CNN-News18 that the state will not see a complete lockdown, but district-wise stringent restrictions and containment zones, the SOPs for which were likely to be made public by April 2.
COVID-19: Noida Records 93 New Cases; No. of Active Patients 399 | With 93 new cases, the COVID19 tally of Gautam Buddh Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh climbed to 26,193 on Thursday, according to official data. The number of active cases of the coronavirus infection rose to 399, according to the data released by the Uttar Pradesh health department for a 24hour period. Also, 25 COVID-19 patients got discharged in the said period, with the total number of recoveries reaching 25,703 in the district, the fifth highest in the state, the data showed. Gautam Buddh Nagar has a COVID-19 death toll of 91 with a mortality rate of 0.34 per cent. The recovery rate of patients reached 98.12 per cent on Thursday, according to the statistics.
Delhi Govt Orders Optimal Utilisation of All COVID Vaccination Centres in Wake of Surge in Cases | Authorities in Delhi have decided to "optimally utilise" all COVID19 vaccination centres in public and private sectors to ensure rapid increase in the pace and coverage of vaccination in view of the surge in cases, according to an official order. Delhi recorded 2,790 fresh casesof COVID-19 on Thursday, the highest daily count this year while nine more people died due to the infection, taking the tollto 11,036, according to the health department.
"In view of surge in COVID-19 cases in states and union territories, it has been decided to optimally utilise all COVID vaccination centres (CVCs) in public and private sector to ensure rapid increase in the pace and coverage of covid vaccination," reads the order issued by the city health department.
A health worker, wearing PPE kit, conducts COVID-19 test of a person at the Gateway of India in Mumbai. (PTI)
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