Maharashtra lockdown news live: Raigad records 1,243 Covid-19 cases, 14 fatalities
Maharashtra registered over 60,000 Covid-19 cases for the third time this month along with 349 deaths -- the second highest addition in the second wave. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, in two letters to PM Modi on Tuesday, raised concerns over the spike in Covid cases in Maharashtra and stated that according to projections, the state’s caseload is expected to double from 5.64 lakh to 11.9 lakh in the next two weeks. The state task force has requested the government to cancel all elective surgeries and admissions in hospitals in a bid to save medical oxygen. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:
To meet the growing demand for oxygen at medical facilities, the administration in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district has acquired the oxygen plant of a steel factory here, an official said on Friday. Collector Sunil Chavan said a team of officials has been appointed to ensure smooth supply of the life-saving gas from the plant, belonging to R L Steel in Chitegaon of Paithan.
People flouting curbs to be tested for Covid-19 in Aurangabad
The civic body in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city has appointed 12 teams to take action against people roaming around in public without any valid reason despite the Covid-19 curbs, an official said on Friday. As a deterrent, the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will make violators undergo Covid-19 tests, municipal commissioner Astik Kumar said in a tweet.
As many as 1,243 persons tested positive for coronavirus and 14 died of the infection in Maharashtra's Raigad district, an official said on Friday. With the latest cases reported on Thursday, the tally of infections in the district has reached 86,467, of which 75,433 patients have recovered from the disease, the official said.
Bombay HC allows Jain Temple Trusts in Mumbai, Pune and Nashik to deliver pious Ayambil fast food from April 19 to April 27 through a team of volunteers not exceeding 7 persons or by professional distribution service agencies permitted by state in its April 13 Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
Maharashtra: Drivers' migration to villages may affect supply of goods, says AIMTC
The migration of drivers from the state to their native villages coupled with harassment of those already operating trucks on state and national highways could cripple the supply chain of both essentials and non-essential goods, pointed out transporters who have petitioned state chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in this connection. Read more
What Maharashtra task force says on Covid-19 management
Maharashtra government’s move to not impose a complete lockdown and try to reduce “crowding” is being viewed as a scientific measure that, unfortunately, has come a “bit too late” to help the state.
Nagpur: Industrial units facing loss due to new Covid rules.
Pray for Ramzan at home, avoid visiting mosques, advise doctors
A day after Bombay high court rejected Juma Masjid Bombay Trust’s plea to allow mosques to hold prayers during the holy month of Ramzan, some Muslim doctors have counselled members of the community not to insist on praying at mosques or to hold congregational prayers anywhere else.
Maharashtra CM has imposed a lockdown by naming it as restrictions. People are intentionally violating these restrictions. Shop owners are also neglecting govt order because they don't believe this govt.
BJP leader Narayan Rane in Mumbai
Ten states comprising Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have shown a steep rise in daily new Covid-19 cases accounting for 79.10 per cent of the new infections, says Union health ministry. (PTI)
The daily requirement of medical oxygen for both government and private hospitals in Malegaon is around 1,500 jumbo cylinders. All these hospitals are completely dependent of supply from Dhule, Nashik and Aurangabad. Malegaon does not have a liquid oxygen manufacturing plant.
‘Other states could adopt Maharashtra template on Covid restrictions’
Maharashtra government’s move to not impose a complete lockdown and try to reduce “crowding” is being viewed as a scientific measure that, unfortunately, has come a “bit too late” to help the state. Read more
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to chair a meeting through video conferencing later today, to assess the Covid-19 situation in the jurisdiction of BMC and also to take an update on BMC's pre-monsoon preparations.
In some instances, Rs 7,000-18,000 was charged per vial when its purchase price is between Rs 1,100 and Rs 1,800 in Pune Metropolitan Region.
Maharashtra government's 15-day statewide restrictions, which came into effect on April 14 in the light of the Covid-19 situation, continues.
Visual from Pune
Pune district's current daily oxygen need 340 metric tonnes
The black-marketing of antiviral drug remdesivir is on the rise in the Pune Metropolitan Region amid Covid surge and its acute shortage.
Covid after vaccination milder, can be treated at home, shows Nashik data
Debate over different curbs on, BJP blames Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar
The debate over the district having different night curfew timings compared to the rest of Maharashtra till May 1 continued on Thursday with state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil blaming NCP leader and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar for the arrangements