In the last few days, telephones have been ringing off the hook at hospitals and pathological laboratories both private and government-run across Ranchi. Officials at these healthcare centres simply refuse to answer them as they know that they just cannot honour requests for hospital beds or make arrangements for quick or at-home Covid tests anymore.
Such has been the surge in the number of coronavirus cases and the demand for Covid tests among people with Covid-like symptoms that healthcare officials in Ranchi have had to tie up with path labs in Patna and Mumbai just to clear the backlog. At sample collection centres across the city, people with cough and fever have stood in tight queues for as much as six hours just for their swaps to be taken. And in some cases, it takes days to get the report, triggering anxiety among those who believe that they have contracted the virus.
Maharastra reports 55,411 new Covid-19 cases
April 10, 2021
People queue up to give samples for COVID-19 test via RT-PCR, at Turbhe Railway Station in Navi Mumbai - PTI
People queue up to give samples for COVID-19 test via RT-PCR, at Turbhe Railway Station in Navi Mumbai - PTI×
Pune district with 1,02,115 active cases is highest among all the districts The fresh cases of Covid continue to rise in Maharashtra with the State Government reporting 55,411 new infections on Saturday. The total number of active cases in the state has risen to 5,36,682.
Pune district with 1,02,115 active cases is highest among all the districts. Mumbai is on the second position with 89,707 cases.
Covid-19: Maharashtra reports 58,993 cases
April 09, 2021
Even as Maharashtra is struggling with getting adequate supply of Covid-19 vaccines, the state reported 58,993 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Friday.
The total number of active cases in the state are 5,34,603 with Pune district leading among all other districts with 1,00,051 active cases. On second place is Mumbai with 88,053 cases.
A press statement issued by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme of the State Health Department said that 45,391 patients were discharged today, taking the total number of recovered patients to 26.95 lakh.
The recovery rate is 81.96 per cent. There were 301 Covid deaths reported in the state today with a case fatality rate of 1.74 per cent. Currently, 26.95 lakh people are in home quarantine and 24,157 people are in institutional quarantine.
April 08, 2021
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray - PTI×
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray informed the Prime Minister on Thursday evening that the state administration has increased the number of Covid tests, and they are being expanded further. Thackeray requested an additional supply of vaccines as well as provision of oxygen and ventilators from other states, said a press statement issued by Chief Minister office.
The statement said, in a video conference with the Prime Minister Thackeray said vaccination could be further enhanced if a proposal sent by the state government to produce the vaccine at its Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd is approved soon.
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