SURAT: Metal structures of furnaces at some crematoriums in Surat have started melting or breaking as they are being used round-the-clock due to the r.
Surat: Running out of options to carry the body of his mother to the crematorium, a banking professional in Olpad village of Surat had to use a handca.
Surat recorded 913 cases and 239 cases were reported from the district areas
Surat: Once again, Surat registered a new peak in number of Covid cases on Saturday as 1,152 people tested positive in city and district on Saturday.
The city recorded 913 cases and 239 cases were reported from the district areas. The number of deaths also reported a new peak as 16 people succumbed to the virus. In the city, 15 deaths were reported while in the district a 50-year-old woman died in Palsana.
As many as 620 people in city were discharged while in district 135 persons were discharged.
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Queue outside BJP office in Surat where the injection vials were being distributed on Saturday
SURAT: Amid massive shortage of remdesivir injections across the state, the city unit of Surat BJP on Saturday was seen distributing 1,000 vials of the much-needed Covid-19 treatment drug for free to citizens when the state-run New Civil Hospital and SMIMER Hospital had a day earlier declared they had run out of stock.
The free distribution raised eyebrows over how the party could procure such a large stock of injection as the entire state is facing a shortage. While the party sources claim they had placed an order for 5,000 injections and was only trying to help needy people, chief minister Vijay Rupani stated that the government had not supplied the life-saving drug to the party unit.“You need to ask CR (Paatil) how he managed the injections. But he had done this was he is concerned about Surat’s people,” CM told media person when asked where did the BJP chief got the remdesivir injections for free distribution.
SURAT: Night curfew currently in force in Surat city will be extended to rural parts of the district from Sunday to curb the spread of Covid-19, offic.
SURAT: Parin Shah (27) a banking professional, had to take the body of his 60-year-old mother Bhadra for cremation in a hand cart on Saturday night in.
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SURAT: The fire department of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) continued its sealing drive of commercial establishments, that have not installed fire safety equipment, on Saturday too.
In the central zone, SMC officials sealed 280 shops of a textile market on Ring Road, while in other zones 56 shops in different shopping complexes were sealed. In Athwa zone, a community hall was also sealed and an automobile showroom was sealed in Rander zone.
Fire officials said that so far 5,307 shops, 11 godowns, nine hotels and four hospitals had been sealed for not adhering to notices for installing adequate fire equipment. “We have given ample time after issuing notices to such establishments yet they have not installed equipment so we have to seal. Once they install adequate fire-fighting infrastructure, we will remove the seal and issue no-objection certificate,” said an official.
Surat: Around 300 resident doctors in New Civil Hospital (NCH) campus went on a flash strike on Saturday evening demanding security after relatives of.