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58.51 lakh Covid tests conducted in the city ByVinay DalviVinay Dalvi / Updated: May 16, 2021, 06:00 IST Andheri, Borivali, Malad, Mulund record the highest cases The Covid recovery rate in Mumbai has gone to up to 92 per cent and the doubling rate averages 189 days. Mumbai has completed 58.51 lakh tests, including RT-PCR and antigen tests. The maximum number of cases have been reported from Andheri West, Borivali, Andheri East, Malad, Mulund, Grant Road and Ghatkopar. At 109 days, Dahisar...

PM Modi for door-to-door testing in rural areas, calls for oxygen distribution plans SECTIONS Last Updated: May 16, 2021, 07:58 AM IST Share Synopsis In a high-level meeting a day after he called for readiness in rural areas to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the PM discussed the overall situation, state of the vaccination drive and spread to rural areas. Also, the PM emphasised that power supply to rural areas should be ensured for smooth operation of medical devices, especially oxygen concentra...

Relief to ecommerce, FMCG cos and transporters, as only temperature checks required at Maharashtra border SECTIONS Share Synopsis In its revised guidelines, the state government has asked officials to screen drivers and helpers of goods carriers originating from outside the state for body temperature and other Covid-19 symptoms, besides the Aarogya Setu app. ET Bureau Maharashtra did away with a new lockdown rule requiring truck drivers and helpers entering the state to produce negative RT-PCR ...

Devendra Fadnavis writes to Sonia, slams Maha governments handling of pandemic SECTIONS Last Updated: May 15, 2021, 07:14 PM IST Share Synopsis The former Maharashtra chief minister in his letter pointed out the high mortality rate in the state and alleged that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government was neglecting Vidarbha, Marathwada and North Maharashtra in the fight against the pandemic. ANI Despite difficulties, Maharashtra has managed to vaccinate 1.15 crore people, highest in the country, ...

NEW DELHI: Come May 22, people flying out of India will be required to carry RT-PCR negative reports ‘having a QR code linking to the original report’. The new requirement comes due to a significant number of false/forged negative reports being given to travel. Meanwhile, the Netherlands has extended the ban on passenger flights from some Covid hotspots, including India, till June 1. The Netherlands had on April 26 decided to suspend India flights as “the epidemiological situation on the...

MUMBAI: BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi about the Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra, and said she should rather advise the states where her party is in power about how to handle the pandemic. State Congress leaders hit back, alleging that the BJP-led Union governments "arrogance and complacency" led to the present crisis. The former Maharashtra chief minister in his letter pointed out the high mortality rate in the state and alleged that the S...

The state government in its revised guidelines, issued on Saturday, said that the truck drivers "may be allowed to enter in the state only after checking the temperature and any other symptoms as well as status of each person on Aarogya Setu".

NOIDA: Senior officials from the district administration have written to the state government asking for a daily supply of 22,000 testing kits for Gautam Budh Nagar. Officials said that while the district’s daily target is 5,500 tests, the number of kits should be about five times higher than that. The administration has said currently, the district needs to conduct 14,000 antigen and 8,000 RT-PCR tests daily, which is a total of 22,000 tests. The state government has not responded to the re...

Haryana govt hiding figures of COVID infected, deaths: Congress SECTIONS Last Updated: May 15, 2021, 05:10 PM IST Share Synopsis "The spread of the coronavirus is increasing rapidly in the state. Instead of preventing it, the government has been making false statements and claims. The figures of those infected and deaths are being hidden," Congress leader Kumari Selja said. PTI "People are not getting treatment. For the last several days, the situation in rural areas has become worse," she told...

Family members of Tapas Panda help pack the food for patients BHUBANESWAR: With the number of Covid cases on the rise, and a large number of them in home isolation, several good Samaritans have come forward to provide home cooked meal for them, free of cost. Tapas Kumar Panda, an associate professor of MBA at Utkal University and his wife Rajashree, a teacher, had started cooking food and delivering it to a few friends and relatives after they got infected and were in home quarantine. Later, t...