During the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) concerning Covid management, Mumbai civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told the Bombay High Court that the situation in the city is under control now.
Maharashtra on Tuesday reported less than 20,000 fresh cases of coronavirus for the third consecutive day. However, it saw a massive jump in the number of deaths due to COVID-19.
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MUMBAI: As oxygen shortage hit a civic hospital on Friday, 46 Covid positive patients had to be shifted out of Bhagwati Hospital, Borivali to three other municipal facilities.
Civic authorities said that the hospital didn’t get its regular fill of oxygen on time and hence moved out the patients before the stocks fully ran out. Of the 45 patients, 25 were moved to the Dahisar jumbo hospital, 10 to Bal Thackeray Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari and 11 to Babasaheb Ambedkar hospital in Kandivli. Dr P Jadhav, chief superintendent of peripheral hospitals, confirmed that the patients had to be shifted on account of oxygen shortage.
Updated Mar 14, 2021 | 22:01 IST
A 52-year-old BMC doctor was allegedly assaulted by a 22-year-old passenger at Bandra Terminus in Maharashtra’s Mumbai on Saturday. BMC doctor assaulted in Mumbai [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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He assaulted the BMC doctor after the latter asked him to take an RT-PCR test.
A case has been registered against the accused for assaulting a public servant.
Mumbai: A young passenger allegedly assaulted Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) doctor following a dispute over taking a COVID-19 test at Bandra Terminus in Maharashtra’s Mumbai late on Saturday.
In view of rising COVID-19 cases in the state, a civic team was deployed at the Bandra Terminus to check the body temperature of passengers arriving in the city from distant places. The accused, identified as Salman Ali Syed (22), arrived from UP along with his family. Using a thermal scanner, the civic team checked Syed