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MUMBAI: Congress MLA from Bandra (East) Zeeshan Siddique has demanded that the BMC must allow bikes and auto rickshaws into drive-in vaccination centres.
“Many drive-in vaccination centres are being opened in Mumbai which is a positive step but many Mumbaikars don’t have the luxury of owning a car and so I have written to the BMC Commissioner to allow citizens on bikes & rickshaws also to get vaccinated following Covid norms!” Zeeshan tweeted on Thursday.
Following the success of its first drive-in vaccination centre within a civic parking lot in Dadar, the BMC had decided to set up one such facility for citizens above 60 years of age in the other six administrative zones too.
Iqbal Chahal: BMC paid more for Remdesivir to save lives
ByChaitanya MarpakwarChaitanya Marpakwar / Updated: Apr 15, 2021, 08:25 IST
Mumbai:
BMC commissioner Iqbal Chahal on Wednesday said the BMC purchased
Remdesivir at a higher rate to save lives since there was an acute shortage of the drug in the city. Chahal said more than the rate, the BMC’s priority was to secure enough vials for Covid-19 patients who would need the life-saving drug in civic hospitals.
“Remdesivir vials have not been supplied to Haffkine yet, since companies have expressed their inability to do so at once. They can only do it in a staggered manner. Dynamics are changing every day. On Tuesday, India recorded 872 deaths, including 225 in
Updated Apr 12, 2021 | 13:25 IST
Mumbai on Sunday registered 9,986 new COVID-19 cases and 79 deaths, taking its caseload to 5,20,498 and death toll to 12,023. The number of active COVID-19 cases in Mumbai stands at 92,464. Mumbai: A health worker administers a dose of Covishield vaccine to the citizens at a hospital in Dharavi | Photo Credit: PTI
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday took a decision to convert a few four-star and five-star hotels in the city into COVID centres in a bid to manage the huge coronavirus patient load. Also, three new jumbo field hospitals will be set up in Mumbai.
As per BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, some of the four-star hotels and five-star hotels in Mumbai and suburbs are being requisitioned immediately to set up COVID Care Centre-2 facilities for infected patients.
Mumbai: COVID-19 positive patient gets bed after BMC chief steps in
ByRicha PintoRicha Pinto / Updated: Apr 6, 2021, 07:24 IST
(This story was first published in the Times of India on April 6, 2021)
Mumbai: A five-hour search for a hospital bed for a septuagenarian Covid patient ended after municipal commissioner
IS Chahal intervened and got her a bed in the BMC-run
Seven Hills Hospital,
Andheri resident Parveen Langrana (76) was admitted to a
Juhu hospital for bronchial infection when she tested positive for Covid-19. As the hospital was not permitted to treat Covid patients, its authorities discharged her immediately. While out on the road searching for a hospital bed, her niece posted a tweet that went viral and caught the
In the wake of an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases, the Mumbai civic body on Sunday said it has decided to make more beds operational in medical facilities treating patients of the viral infection in the city.