Hopeful of receiving substantial foreign aid demanded from Centre, says Maharashtra Health Minister
Hopeful of receiving substantial foreign aid demanded from Centre, says Maharashtra Health Minister
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said the state is hopeful of receiving substantial foreign aid demanded from the Centre in battling the Covid-19 pandemic.
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UPDATED: May 4, 2021 21:16 IST
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said the state is hopeful of getting substantial foreign aid demanded from the Centre in battling the Covid-19 pandemic. (File Photo: AP)
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said the state government is hopeful that the Centre will provide them with emergency aid which has been coming from other countries in order to tackle the raging second wave of Covid-19.
COVID-19: Positivity rate in Maharashtra dropped from 27 pc to 22 pc, says Health Min ANI | Updated: May 04, 2021 21:01 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 4 (ANI): Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said the state has recorded a 5 per cent drop in positivity rate of COVID infection, from 27 percent to 22 per cent, adding that recovery rate is at 84.07 per cent, which is the highest in the country.
Briefing the mediapersons, Tope said, Positivity rate in the state has dropped from 27 to 22 per cent. We are testing 2.80 lakh persons daily and there is been no fall in testing. From 63,000, the tally for COVID patients has come down to 61,000. At 84.07 per cent, our recovery rate is the highest in the country.
Health minister Rajesh Tope on Thursday said that Maharashtra may witness a third wave of the infection in July-August. The grim prediction by the minister came as Maharashtra reported 66,159 new COVID-19 cases and 771 deaths in a single day.
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Russia will arrive in
India on Saturday. The rollout of the Russian vaccine is expected to augment India s third phase of the
vaccination drive which also begins tomorrow.
India is witnessing a surge in
COVID-19 cases in the second wave of pandemic and is registering the highest daily deaths and positive cases. On top of it there is an acute shortage of vaccines which has crippled the speed of vaccination drive. Several major states in the country have already postponed the launch of the third phase of vaccination which makes everyone above 18 eligible to get the jab.
As the city grapples with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief Iqbal Singh Chahal on Friday said that Mumbai s test positivity rate has dropped below 10 per cent.