Coronavirus Latest News LIVE Updates: The HC said it will allow the Mumbai civic body to conduct door-to-door vaccination for senior citizens and persons with disabilities even if the Centre doesn't permit
Coronavirus
Latest News LIVE Updates: The Union health ministry said that screening of vaccine recipients by Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) prior to COVID-19 vaccination is not required.
The Union health ministry on Wednesday said it had accepted the NEGVAC's recommendations and COVID-19 vaccination should be deferred by three months after recovery from the illness. If infected with COVID after taking the first vaccine dose, second dose to be deferred by three months after clinical recovery, it said
Bombay High Court directs the Maharashtra government to transfer DU associate professor Hany Babu to a hospital of his choice (Breach Candy Hospital) by tomorrow as he suffering from Mucormycosis and is coronavirus positive, reports LiveLaw. The cost of treatment will be borne by Babu and his family is permitted to communicate with him and the doctors.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said if the BMC can conduct door-to-door vaccination for the old and the persons with disability, it will allow the BMC to do so.
The court told Mumbai civic body that it will give the go-ahead for door-to-door vaccination even if the Centre is not willing to give permission and asked the BMC commissioner to file an affidavit.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Centre of diverting attention and said while deaths due to COVID-19 are increasing the vaccines are reducing.
A Bombay HC Bench comprising CJ Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni had observed that if the door-to-door policy on vaccination was implemented earlier it may have saved many lives.
Slamming the BMC for neglecting public health, the Bombay HC said that Indian students for lack of seats are going to countries like Russia, China for education. "Isn’t it somewhere we should really really be thinking," the court asked.
Bombay corporation has unique vision since ages. No other corporation in Maharashtra has the vision to establish these medical colleges. There are 5 medical colleges only in Bombay, said the court.
The state government said it will provide Rs 3,000 each for auto/taxi drivers and construction workers, Rs 2,000 for workers in the unorganised sector and Rs 10,000 per hectare for floriculture farmers.
Responding to Kejriwal's tweet, Singapore's health ministry Wednesday said, 'There is no truth whatsoever in the assertions found within the reports'.
Taking to Twitter, Kejriwal had said the new strain of coronavirus could invade India in the form of a third wave.
"The new form of coronavirus in Singapore is said to be very dangerous for children. It could reach Delhi in the form of a third wave. My appeal to the Central government: 1. Cancel all air services with Singapore with immediate effect 2. Work on vaccine alternatives for children on a priority basis," the Delhi chief minister said in a tweet in Hindi on Tuesday.
The data added that the South-East Asia Region reported over 25 lakh new cases and over 30,000 new deaths, a 12 percent decrease and a 7 percent increase respectively compared to the previous week.
The active COVID-19 cases in India further reduced to 32.26 lakh comprising 12.66% of the total infections, said the health ministry on Wednesday. The country registered over 2.67 lakh new cases taking the tally over 2.54 crore.
With the death of 4,529 more patients, the highest so far, the total number of fatalities in the country climbed to 2,83,248 on Wednesday, said the Union health ministry. This takes the national fatality rate to 1.11 percent.
India registered 2,67,334 fresh coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, taking the overall count over 2.54 crore on Wednesday, said the Union health ministry.
Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 28,438 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 679 deaths, the state health department said. The overall count now stands at 54,33,506 and the toll at 83,777, it said.
Maharashtra had on Monday reported 26,616 infections and 516 COVID-19 fatalities.
Of the 679 new fatalities, 422 occurred over the past 48 hours, while 257 deaths had taken place last week, but they were added to the overall toll data on Tuesday, the
department said.
Some of the earlier deaths, which had taken place before the last week, were also added to the cumulative report.
The figure for the cumulative deaths due to COVID-19 on Monday was 82,486, which is now increased by 1,291 to 83,777.
There has been no official comment from the state government over the change in reporting the COVID-19 deaths.
Till 16 May evening, COVID-19 deaths that had occurred over a week ago also used to be included in the daily reporting. However, the state stopped reporting the deaths in this manner from Monday.
A total of 52,898 patients were discharged from hospitals on Tuesday, taking the number of recoveries in Maharashtra so far to 49,27,480. The state is now left with 4,19,727 active cases.
The case recovery rate in Maharashtra now stands at 90.69 percent, while the mortality rate is 1.54 percent, the statement said, adding the case positivity rate continues to
be at 17.2 percent, as per the department.
Mumbai reported 961 new cases, taking its tally to 6,90,023, while 44 new deaths pushed the toll to 14,316, it said.
The Mumbai division, which includes the MMR region and satellite towns, reported 2,559 fresh cases and 129 fatalities, including 58 from municipal areas in Vasai and Virar, during the day.
The Nashik division saw 5,308 cases and Ahmednagar district 1,917.
A total of 1,284 cases were reported from rural parts of the Nashik district. The Nashik division also reported 85 casualties - 22 in rural areas, 15 in Nashik city and Nandurbar district, 12 in Jalgaon and 11 in Ahmednagar district, the department said.
The Pune division added 7,160 new cases and 84 deaths. The Solapur division reported 2,106 cases. Pune rural areas reported 2,053 infections and Pune city 1,090.
Satara added 1,270 new infections. Of the 84 deaths, 34 occurred in Satara alone followed by 26 in Solapur, 13 in Pune city and 11 in its rural parts, the department said.
Rural areas in Sangli and Kolhapur added 1,740 and 1,250 fresh cases, respectively.
At 194, the Kolhapur division reported one of its worst numbers of COVID-19 fatalities.
In the Marathwada region, the Aurangabad division added 1,034 new cases and seven deaths.
While most of the districts in the Latur division reported a fall in new cases, Beed district added 1,295 infections to the Latur division's tally of 2,468 cases on Tuesday.
Similarly, out of 63 deaths, 27 were reported from Beed, while 12 deaths occurred in Latur and 10 in Osmanabad district, the department said.
The Akola division reported 3,294 cases and 53 deaths, of which Amaravati district added 13 fatalities, Yavatmal 12 and Akola 10, it said.
The Nagpur division's caseload went up by 2,605 while the fatality count rose by 64, including 20 in Nagpur city and 16 in Chandrapur, the department said.
With 2,50,310 new tests, Maharashtra has so far examined 3,15,88,717 samples.
A total of 30,97,161 people are in home quarantine and 25,004 are in institutional quarantine, the department said.
Maharashtra's COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases - 54,33,506; new cases - 28,438; deaths - 83,777; discharged - 49,27,480; active cases - 4,19,727; people tested
so far - 3,15,88,717.
