Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked the Centre to declare the COVID-19 pandemic as a national calamity , Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Thursday. Talking to reporters here,Raut also said the Maharashtra model of COVID-19 management should be implemented in other parts of the country. He, however, did not elaborate on the model. Raut said Thackeray, during meetings of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and through letters to the Centre, had asked to declare the COVID-19 crisis as a national calamity . Thackeray has been saying this for a month now and it is good that even the Supreme Court has taken note of it, the Rajya Sabha member said.
Congress MP Rajeev Satav hospitalised for Covid treatment, on ventilator support
Congress MP Rajeev Satav hospitalised for Covid treatment, on ventilator support
Congress leader Rajeev Satav, who had tested coronavirus positive last week, has been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Pune and kept on ventilator support
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Congress leader Rajeev Satav has been kept on ventilator support. (PTI)
Congress leader Rajeev Satav, who had tested coronavirus positive last week, has been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Pune and kept on ventilator support, a party leader said on Thursday.
Rajeev Satav, a Rajya Sabha member, is admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Jehangir Hospital, he said.
Bombay High Court advises Maharashtra to go under a strict 15-day lockdown
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The court made the statement during a hearing for a plea alleging the mismanagement of COVID-19 treatment in the state.
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Maharashtra should go under a strict lockdown for another 15 days.
Maharashtra has been one of the worst-hit states during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to struggle with the number of cases.The Bombay High Court has advised that the state of Maharashtra should go under a strict lockdown for another 15 days.
The court made the statement during a hearing for a plea, which alleged that COVID-19 treatment was being mismanaged in the state. The Bombay High Court bench led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta advised the state’s Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni to tell the Maharashtra government to go ahead with a 15-day strict lockdown.
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CM Uddhav Thackeray spoke to district collectors, divisional commissioners and municipal commissioners virtually to take a stock of the pandemic situation
He said the daily spike in cases has stabilised, but the administration has to be very careful and plan for the possibility of a third wave
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday (April 29) asked district officials to make plans for new oxygen plants and stocking of medicines in view of the threat of a third COVID-19 wave, as the state s health department today reported 66,159 fresh coronavirus cases and 771 fatalities, taking the tally of infections to 45,39,553 and the toll to 67,985.
Maharashtra may see third COVID wave in July-August, Uddhav tells officials to prepare
District collectors were told the government will not tolerate any complain about non-availability of oxygen when the state is hit by a third wave, said the health minister.
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People wearing face shields and masks as a precaution against the coronavirus arrive to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai. (Photo | AP) By PTI
MUMBAI: Still reeling under a deadly second wave of COVID-19, Maharashtra may witness a third wave of the infection in July-August, said health minister Rajesh Tope on Thursday.
The grim prediction by Tope came on a day when Maharashtra, the state worst-hit by the pandemic in the country, recorded 66,159 fresh coronavirus cases and 771 fatalities.