Cyclone Tauktae has intensified, moving towards Gujarat: IMD
The IMD director said, the cyclonic storm Tauktae in the Arabian sea is moving away from the Kerala coast and is now approaching the Karnataka coast
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Cyclonic storm Tauktae has intensified and is heading towards the coast of Gujarat and the Union Territory of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, though it could bring gusty winds and showers to Mumbai, the IMD said on Saturday.
The cyclonic storm is very likely to intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm by late Saturday night, the India Meteorological Department said, adding it was very likely to move north-northwestwards and cross Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Naliya around May 18.
Send Gujarat on Saturday recorded 14,097 COVID-19 cases, its highest one-day rise so far, which took the caseload to 4,81,737. The state also reported highest one-day death count of 152, which pushed the overall death toll to 6,171, a health department official said.
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At least 6,479 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, raising the count of recoveries to 3,67,972, he added. With this, the state s recovery rate stands at 76.38 per cent.Â
There are 1,07,594 active cases in the state, 396 of them in a critical condition.Â
With 5,683 new infections, Ahmedabad reported the highest number of cases, followed by Surat with 2,686, Vadodara with 701, Jamnagar with 639, Rajkot with 500, Mehsana with 430, Bhavnagar with 310 and Banaskantha with 291.Â
âI Was Aware Of Itâ, Says Maharashtra FDA Minister; Confirms That Remdesivir Arranged By BJP Was For The State Govt
Sanjay Raut and Devendra Fadnavis
In what turned out to be a storm in a tea-cup, the 60,000 vials of Remdesivir injections procured by the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was intended for the Maharashtra government, Foods & Drugs Administration Minister Dr. Rajendra Shingane admitted on Tuesday. I was aware of it. The BJP leaders had met me at my house along with the manufacturers representatives. They offered to help us procure the Remdesivir stocks for the state government and I agreed to it, Dr. Shingane told a local private TV channel.
Remdesivir is listed for use in serious COVID-19 patients. The Bruck Pharma director, who was questioned by Mumbai police over the company s Remdesivir stock, has denied stocking the vials in the city and claimed the consignment has been moved to a godown in Daman, a police official said on Tuesday.
Remdesivir is listed for use in serious COVID-19 patients. In view of a sudden spike in demand of the drug due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Centre last week banned its export till the situation improves.
The Mumbai police on Saturday questioned Rajesh Dokania, the director of the Daman-based pharmaceutical company that manufactures Remdesivir vials, following information that around 60,000 vials were going to be flown abroad by air cargo, despite a ban on the export of the drug.
: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 4:11 PM IST
Remdesivir row: Injections arranged by BJP was for Maharashtra govt, confirms state minister Dr Rajendra Shingane
Shingane added that the injection stock could not be for any other purpose and even the BJP leaders assured him accordingly, embarrassing the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress
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In what turned out to be a storm in a tea-cup, the 60,000 vials of Remdesivir injections procured by the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was intended for the Maharashtra government, Foods & Drugs Administration Minister Dr. Rajendra Shingane admitted here on Tuesday. I was aware of it. The BJP leaders had met me at my house along with the manufacturers representatives. They offered to help us procure the Remdesivir stocks for the state government and I agreed to it, Dr. Shingane told a local private TV channel.