Mumbai: Mithi River Clean-up project in partnership with global companies to begin only after May
Mithi river
The much awaited Mithi River Clean Up project of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to begin only after May this year. As the installation work of the customised recycling plant made by a Finland based RiverRecycle company, likely to take place in the fourth week of May, only after overcoming the challenges of logistical, labour issues and avaibility of technical experts amid Covid-19 pandemic. Besides, custom clearance, site preparation by taking measurements, depth analysis about the flow of river and floating waste the said installation work will be completed and thereafter the cleaning work shall begin. The machine was dispatched from the foreign country in October 2020 and has already reached India in January this year, informed MMRDA.
40 pvt vaccination centres in Mumbai to be closed tomorrow
ANI
29 Apr 2021, 03:03 GMT+10
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 28 (ANI): The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) on Wednesday announced that 40 out of 73 private COVID-19 vaccination centres in the city will remain closed on Thursday due to insufficient vaccines stock.
MCGM also appealed to people that only those who want to take the second dose should come for vaccination on April 29. The stock of covid vaccine available in Mumbai has almost run out today (April 28, 2021). Due to this, 40 out of 73 private vaccination centers in Mumbai will not be vaccinating on Thursday, April 29, 2021. The remaining 33 private vaccination centres are also available for limited vaccination. For this reason, the citizens who come there for the second dose will be vaccinated with priority and as long as there is a stock of vaccine, MCGM said in a release.
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Pune civic body receives stock of 25,000 doses of Covishield, 2nd dose to be given priority ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 03:39 IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 29 (ANI): With Phase III of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive set to start on May 1, Pune Municipal Corporation received a new stock of 25,000 doses of Covishield vaccine on Wednesday.
However, despite receiving new stock, the district continues to struggle with the shortage of vaccine. Pune Municipal Corporation said the vaccines will be only distributed at government facilities and not to private hospitals. This arrangement and adjustment are being done because of less stock of vaccines with administration, Municipal Corporation said.
COVID-19 vaccine stock runs out in Mumbai; 40 pvt vaccination centres to be closed tomorrow ANI | Updated: Apr 28, 2021 22:03 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 28 (ANI): The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) on Wednesday announced that 40 out of 73 private COVID-19vaccination centres in the city will remain closed on Thursday due to insufficient vaccines stock.
MCGM also appealed to people that only those who want to take the second dose should come for vaccination on April 29. The stock of covid vaccine available in Mumbai has almost run out today (April 28, 2021). Due to this, 40 out of 73 private vaccination centers in Mumbai will not be vaccinating on Thursday, April 29, 2021. The remaining 33 private vaccination centres are also available for limited vaccination. For this reason, the citizens who come there for the second dose will be vaccinated with priority and as long as there is a stock of vaccine, MCGM said in
India’s cumulative vaccination coverage exceeds 14.5 crore: Fatality rate falls to 1.12%
GN Bureau | April 27, 2021
An oxygen tank on way to Mumbai on Monday.
To address shortage of oxygen tankers in the country, the centre has imported 20 cryogenic tankers of 10 MT and 20 MT capacity and allocated them to states. The mapping of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) from the manufacturing plant to different states being a dynamic process and transportation of medical oxygen through cryogenic tankers becoming a bottleneck in making available LMO from the eastern part of the country to other parts, 20 cryogenic ISO containers of capacity 20 MT and 10 MT have been imported to augment the transportation of oxygen.