Maharashtra Covid unlock news live: State logs less than 10,000 cases for 2nd day in a row
For the second day in a row, Maharashtra reported under 10,000 cases on Tuesday but fatalities surged over Monday’s in the state. Also, over a thousand past deaths were added on Tuesday in the data reconciliation exercise, taking the total of such fatalities over 20,000 on Tuesday. Relief and rehabilitation department principal secretary Aseem Gupta on Tuesday said that talks were on with senior decision makers of the state whether to exempt vaccinated travellers from showing a negative RT-PCR report while entering Maharashtra or not. The number of hotspot villages in the rural parts of Pune district has gone down by 100 — from 186 last week to 86 now. The city’s transport utility will resume its airport bus service from Wednesday. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:Read Less
Thane district's Covid-19 count rises by 436, death toll by 25
With the addition of 436 coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra mounted to 5,25,973, an official said on Wednesday. These new cases were reported on Tuesday, he said. READ MORE
1,505 people fined for violating face mask rule in Pune
The city police personnel on Monday fined 1,505 people for not wearing masks while out in public. Police also booked a shopkeeper for violating Covid guidelines. “We collected a fine of Rs7.40 lakh from the mask-rule violators,” deputy commissioner of police (special branch) Mitesh Ghatte said.
PMC staffers to get special pay hike for Covid work
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) staffers will get a special hike for working through the pandemic. The PMC standing committee has approved the proposal for the pay hike. Around 23,000 employees will benefit from the decision. “The civic employees have worked during tough times. Their work must be recognised. They should get the special pay hike,” said Ajit Darekar, a co-opted corporator, who put forth the proposal.
1,335 discharged in Pune Metropolitan Region; recovery rate over 97%
More than 1,300 patients recovered from C ovid-19 in Pune Metropolitan Region on Tuesday, increasing the region’s overall recovery rate to 97.2%. In the same period, PMR added 1,142 new cases. This took the region’s progressive caseload to 10,34,059. The total number of recoveries in PMR stood at10,05,327.
Maharashtra reports 9,350 new Covid cases
The state added 9,350 new Covid cases, 388 deaths, and 1,070 ‘old’ fatalities, taking the total caseload to 59.3 lakh and the cumulative toll to 1,14,154. Since May 17, the state has added 20,186 unreported deaths. Due to the data reconciliation, 1,698 duplicate cases have been deleted from the total tally.
Social work: College girl, 20, ferries Covid victims’ bodies in Kolhapur
Her college lectures having gone online, Priya Patil says she had time on her hands to engage in social work. Avenues for this noble pursuit are plentiful, but who would have thought that the 20-year-old would choose to get behind the wheel of an ambulance and ferry bodies of Covid victims to the crematorium. READ MORE
In Maharashtra, CoWin shows 1 lakh duplicate signups for 2nd dose
A massive data scrubbing exercise is under way on CoWin to find and remove names of people who registered twice on the system — under different phone numbers — to get their second vaccine dose. Public health officials said an early assessment has shown that Maharashtra has at least one lakh beneficiaries (mostly healthcare and frontline workers) with completed two-dose schedules still showing as due for their second doses. It's unclear how many such beneficiaries there are in other states. READ MORE
New Covid cases stay low, data recount cuts 1,700 from Maharashtra tally
For the second day in a row, Maharashtra reported under 10,000 cases on Tuesday and the city registered fewer than 600. But fatalities surged over Monday’s in the state. Also, over a thousand past deaths were added on Tuesday in the data reconciliation exercise, taking the total of such fatalities over 20,000 on Tuesday. READ MORE