Mumbai News Updates: Mumbai reports less than 2000 cases for second day in a row
Mumbai News Updates: Mumbai reports less than 2000 cases for second day in a row
Mumbai on Monday reported less than 2000 cases as 1,794 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. With 74 fatalities, the city s death toll has climbed to 13,891 with a total caseload of 6,78,269 cases. The metropolis now has a recovery rate of 91 per cent and is left with 45,534 active cases. Meanwhile, as the vaccine shortage continues in the city, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar said that the BMC will issue global tenders to procure around 5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.Read Less
Silver lining in Maharashtra s COVID fight? After Mumbai, now Nagpur and Pune see fall in fresh cases
In Nagpur, Union minister Nitin Gadkar himself stepped in while in Pune, a Mumbai team has been assisting the city to bring down the positivity rate.
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A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a person to test for COVID-19 as others wait for their turn outside a field hospital in Mumbai. (Photo | AP)
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MUMBAI: After Mumbai, two metro cities Pune and Nagpur are speedily getting better: Covid cases and mortality have dropped significantly in the last few days, as per the Maharashtra health department data.
Maharashtra to provide free treatment to patients with mucormycosis: Rajesh Tope
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Cases of mucormycosis are rising among COVID-19 survivors, causing blindness or serious illness and even death in some cases. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government on Monday announced to provide free treatment to patients with the fungal infection.
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said, In some districts of the state, COVID-19 survivors are suffering from a fungal disease called mucormycosis. The health department has taken serious note of it. An awareness campaign will be launched and patients with mucormycosis will be treated free of cost under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana.
Maharashtra to treat Mucormycosis patients for free under flagship medical insurance scheme
Mirror Online / Updated: May 11, 2021, 11:59 IST
Mumbai:
Rajesh Tope on Monday informed that the patients of
Mucormycosis will now be treated for free under the state government s flagship medical insurance scheme.
Mucormycosis is a rare but serious fungal infection that has been affecting those who have tested positive for
coronavirus.
Mucormycosis patients will be covered under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana since the medicines required to combat the fungal infection are expensive, an official statement quoted Tope as saying.
Patients will be treated for free at 1000 hospitals across the state which are covered under the scheme.
Over 26 lakh poor Covid patients treated free of cost so far: Maharashtra govt tells Bombay HC
Over 26 lakh poor Covid patients treated free of cost so far: Maharashtra govt tells Bombay HC
The Maharashtra government told the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court that 26.48 lakh underprivileged patients have been treated free of cost in Covid care centres under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Aarogya Yojana (MJPJAY).
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The Maharashtra government told the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court that 26.48 lakh underprivileged patients have been treated free of cost in Covid care centres under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Aarogya Yojana (MJPJAY).