Mumbai: Jaslok Hospital fully converted to COVID-19 facility
Mirror Online / Updated: Apr 15, 2021, 10:59 IST
Mumbai: In view of the rising number of coronavirus cases in the city, the renowned
Jaslok Hospital has now been fully converted into a COVID-19 facility, the
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (
BMC) informed on Thursday. The occupancy of beds in available DCH hospitals, especially in private hospitals, being very high, it is necessary to increase the number of beds with advanced critical care in
Mumbai. Jaslok Hospital has served as a DCH hospital with advanced critical care since the beginning of the pandemic and has been rendering excellent services to admitted COVID-19 patients, the BMC stated.
Mumbai: Doctor, two others arrested in Malvani for black marketing Remdesivir injections
Mirror Online / Updated: Apr 14, 2021, 14:30 IST
Mumbai Police on Tuesday busted a
Remdesivir black marketing racket and arrested three persons in connection with the unauthorised selling of the drug majorly being used to treat coronavirus patients.
The accused have been identified as Rizwan Arif Ghalib Hussain Mansoor (32) a doctor by profession, Shivpujan Vishwakarma (28) a medical representative, and Sidharth Yadav (21) a student.
Police sub inspector Rakesh Pawar received a tip-off on Tuesday evening that injections of Remdesivir are being sold in the
Charkop Naka area of
Malad s
Mumbai: Can househelps go to work amid new restrictions? Here s what BMC has to say
Mirror Online / Updated: Apr 14, 2021, 08:06 IST
BMC) chief
maids and househelps will be allowed to travel in the city.
Chahal informed that domestic helps and maids will be permitted by the civic body to travel and continue with their work during the period from April 14 to April 30. A fresh set of orders will be issued by the BMC on Wednesday as clarification for the residents of
Mumbai, additional commissioner Suresh Kakani said.
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Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said that in the wake of Covid-19 surge in the state, the situation is much worse than the last year.
Mumbai: Passengers rush outside LTT for outstation trains; Railways says no plan to curtail train services
Mirror Online / Updated: Apr 14, 2021, 12:14 IST
Crowd outside LTT on Wednesday. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL
Mumbai: The Central Railway on Wednesday assured citizens that trains will not stop running despite the rising number of
coronavirus cases in the country and the lockdown-like restrictions in Maharashtra.
Hundreds of migrant workers gathered outside
Mumbai s Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) on Tuesday and Wednesday to return to their hometowns, fearing that interstate passenger trains will be stopped once again as they had been during the lockdown in April 2020.
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope seeks increase in Remdesivir production, reduction in price
ANI / Updated: Apr 13, 2021, 14:21 IST
Jalna:
Rajesh Tope has stated that the price of anti-viral drug
Remdesivir, which is also used in the treatment of COVID-19, should be reduced to Rs 1,200-Rs 1,300. He also said that the companies manufacturing the anti-viral drug should double the production.
The Minister said that companies that produce Remdesivir should also double their production.
Speaking to the media he said, Companies manufacturing anti-viral drug Remdesivir should double the production and decrease its Maximum Retail Price (MRPs) to Rs 1200- Rs1300.
Remdisivir is reportedly being sold between Rs 2,400-6,000. The injection is being sold in black market at even higher prices.