COVID Mumbai news: Lactating mothers, pregnant women can walk-in to take vaccine jabs
BMC on Monday decided to allow Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women and lactating mothers, without prior registration.
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Updated: May 25, 2021, 09:45 PM IST
Mumbai s civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday decided to allow Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women and lactating mothers, without prior registration. Pregnant women will have to produce a certificate written on the letterhead of gynaecologists from whom they are taking treatment along with a self-consent letter, BMC said.
The days allotted for this particular division are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. However, they have to register at vaccination centres.
Kangana has special request for Mumbai and Gujarat governments(Photo Credit – Instagram)
Kangana Ranaut took to her Instagram post and mentioned, “Today I planted 20 trees, we only ask what I got, sometimes please ask what I gave back to this planet also !!! In recent cyclone Tauktae Mumbai lost more than 70 per cent of its trees and Gujarat lost more than 50 thousands trees, these trees take decades to grow, how can we loose them every year like this, who is compensating for this loss?”
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“How are we preventing our cities from becoming concrete jungles? We must ask ourselves did we ask authorities the right questions? What are we giving back to our country?” Kangana Ranaut wrote.
No home isolation for Covid patients in rural, semi-urban Maharashtra
No home isolation for Covid patients in rural, semi-urban Maharashtra
The Maharashtra government has banned home isolation for Covid positive patients in rural and semi-urban areas in districts with high positivity rate.
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Covid patient being treated at a Covid care centre | Representative image from PTI
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday decided to ban home isolation for Covid patients in rural and semi-urban areas in districts that still have positivity rate higher than 10 per cent.
As per the order, all new patients testing positive for virus in these areas wil have to be admitted to Covid care centres.
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation has received eight offers for its global tender for ten million Covid-19 vaccine doses and has extended the bid deadline till June 1 to allow more participation. Seven of those offers are for supplying the Russian-origin Sputnik vaccine while one is for supplying Astra Zeneca and Pfizer doses. The civic body of Mumbai issued an expression of interest for Covid-19 vaccines on May 12 and received five offers by May 18. Another three offers were received today. The BMC is now scrutinising the offers and has asked the bidders to provide authorisation letters from manufacturers and demonstrate capability to supply vaccines within the required timeframe.