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Maharashtra on Sunday declared six states, including the national capital and the NCR region, as the places of sensitive origin .
Passengers travelling to Maha from these six places will now need a RT-PCR negative test within 48 hrs oftheir train travel.
The move has been taken in order to contain spread of coronavirus.
New Delhi: On a day when Maharashtra recorded its highest single-day rise in coronavirus cases, it mandated a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR report for the train passengers travelling from Delhi-NCR and five states.
In order to break the transmission of coronavirus, Maharashtra on Sunday (April 18, 2021) declared Delhi-NCR, Kerala, Goa, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttarakhand as the places of sensitive origin that may lead to the higher potentiality of spreading COVID-19, ANI reported. As per the order by Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, passengers travelling to Maharashtra from the six places mentioned above will need a RT-PCR negative test wit
Maharashtra: Covid Test Mandatory For Train Passengers Coming From Six States
Passengers travelling to Maharashtra from these places will need a negative RT-PCR report of test conducted within 48 hours of their train travel. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-19T09:09:25+05:30 Maharashtra: Covid Test Mandatory For Train Passengers Coming From Six States outlookindia.com 2021-04-19T09:11:36+05:30
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Grappling with a huge Covid-19 surge, Maharashtra has declared six states, including Delhi and the NCR region, as places of sensitive origin in a bid to stop the influx of other variants of coronavirus into the state.
In an order issued on Sunday, Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte declared Kerala, Goa, Gujarat, Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), Rajasthan and Uttarakhand as places of sensitive origin .
Do not single out states: Goa CM to Thackeray
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Sinquerim: The Baga Beach bears a deserted look after the Goa Government invoked Section 144 in the wake of increasing cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus), in Sinquerim on March 21, 2020. . Image Source: IANS News
Panaji, April 19 : Goa Chief Minister Prmaod Sawant on Monday urged Uddhav Thackeray to not single out states, after the Maharashtra government blacklisted six states, including Goa, as places of sensitive origin . #COVID19 is a global pandemic. Let us put up a combined fight against this pandemic under the leadership of PM @narendramodi ji. I urge @CMOMaharashtra not to single out states as Places of Sensitive Origin , and withdraw the said order in public interest, Sawant tweeted on Monday.
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COVID-19 vaccine: Centre permits Mumbai s Haffkine Institute to produce Covaxin
In a letter to Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, Renu Swarup, Secretary in Department of Biotechnology, said Haffkine Institute can manufacture the vaccine doses.
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The Maharashtra government will appoint a senior officer to monitor and complete the project, which will increase availability of Covaxin, in time.
The Centre has given its nod to Mumbai-based Haffkine Institute to manufacture Bharat Biotech s COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin.
During a video-conference between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers of the states, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had requested to allow Haffkine Institute, run by the Maharashtra government, to manufacture Covaxin.