MUMBAI: After being the worst Covid-19 hotspot in India for most of 2020, Mumbai starts the new year on a good note: a positivity rate of less than 5% in December. According to data from the BMC public health department as of December 29, the overall positivity rate in December …
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MUMBAI: A total of 11 of the roughly 2,200 passengers who returned to Mumbai from the UK since Nov. 25 have tested positive for the coronavirus, civic body officials said on Monday. Of these 11 passengers, five had arrived last week, while the other six had returned by Dec. 22, …
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MUMBAI: The civic claim that there is no post-Diwali spike in Covid cases in the city was given a boost when, despite 17,801 Covid-19 tests, the highest conducted in one day in Mumbai so far, only 6% of the tests were positive. . However, BMC officials admitted that “pockets” of …
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While India’s number of daily cases is only a few thousand from the one lakh mark, data from the health ministry reveals that only five states are contributing 60 percent of new cases, Maharashtra tops the table with al less than 30 percent of new cases every day. Karnataka ranks …
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[ad_1] Mumbai: Ashok Chavan, Maharashtra’s cabinet minister and senior Congress leader, who has tested positive for the new coronavirus, was Monday admitted to a Bombay hospital, a close aide, said. He became the second cabinet minister after NCP leader Jitendra Awhad to test COVID-19 positive. “The minister had contracted the …
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[ad_1] Mumbai: Several COVID-19 treatment at hospitals and centers with a combined capacity of 7,000 beds will come in Mumbai in the next two weeks, said an official of the Maharashtra Chief Minister’s office on Monday. A representative picture. Getty images These hospitals and centers, with a combined capacity of …
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