Category 2 is for cities and districts where the positivity rate is five per cent and oxygen bed occupancy is 25 to 40 per cent, while category 3 comprises areas where the positivity rate is five per cent to 10 per cent and the oxygen bed occupancy is more than 40 per cent.
Maharashtra government has fixed treatment rates for mucomycosis (black fungus) patients in private hospitals. There are three different prices for the ward and ICU isolation categories.
Kolhapur: The seats reserved for the other backward category (OBC) candidates will be converted into open category in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order, secretary of the State Election Commission Kiran Kurundkar told TOI on Tuesday.
The state election commission is waiting for the Covid situation to ease to schedule the elections for five municipal corporations, two Zilla Parishads and over 100 nagar panchayats, which are over due.
The SC has struck down the law mandating 27% flat reservations for the OBC candidates in the local bodies from grampanchayats to ZPs and municipal corporations. Instead, it has recommended that the state government get empirical data of the population of OBC in the respective local body to fix the reservation quota.
Maharashtra government prepares for COVID-19 third wave, forms Pediatric Task Force
It is being said that the third wave of coronavirus can have more impact on children. File photo (Reuters)
Updated: May 7, 2021, 04:02 PM IST
Mumbai: Maharashtra has been the worst affected state from the first and second wave of coronavirus. Right now, while the second wave is at its peak, experts have predicted the arrival of the third wave. It is also said that the third wave can have more impact on children. In view of this apprehension, the Government of Maharashtra has set up a Pediatric Task Force.
On Thursday, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray also had a discussion with pediatric doctors regarding this.
Each plant will make 2 tonnes of oxygen from air per day
The Mumbai metropolitan region will soon have 14 plants for producing medical oxygen from the air. The plants would be set up by local municipal bodies. Each plant would be able to produce about two tonnes of oxygen per day, said Maharashtra’s Urban Development Minister, Eknath Shinde in a media statement on Sunday.
Due to the ongoing Covid pandemic, the state and the Mumbai metropolitan region has been facing a massive shortage of medical oxygen.
The statement said that local municipal bodies in places such as Thane, Kalyan Dombivali, Ambernath, Badlapur and other areas have come forward for setting up the plant. These plants will be operational in the next few days.