A screen grab from a video clip shows a man with an oxygen cylinder being evacuated in Kolhapur on Monday
MUMBAI: The death toll in the flood-hit regions of the state rose to 192 on Monday even as rain water receded and two lanes of the Pune-Bengaluru national highway were opened after a four-day gap. Twenty-five people are still reported missing and as many as 3.7 lakh people have been evacuated, the bulk of them from Sangli district. The Panchganga and Krishna rivers in Western Maharashtra remain over the danger mark.
The torrential rains mainly in Konkan and western Maharashtra since last Thursday triggered landslides leading to widespread devastation. As many as 95 casualties are from Raigad district alone. The IMD has predicted it is very likely that Konkan, Goa and the ghat areas of central Maharashtra will receive widespread rain over the next three days. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had to cut short his aerial survey of Satara district as his helicopter could not land d
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MUMBAI: Maharashtra, the country s worst-hit state, has become the first to administer more than eight million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. The state accounts for 10% of the 8.3 crore vaccine doses given in the country-the highest among states-since the January 16 rollout. Maharashtra is much ahead of Gujarat (76.9 lakh) and Rajasthan (72.9 lakh) in vaccination.
Parts of the state, though, have started reeling under vaccine shortage, a point raised by public health minister Rajesh Tope with union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday.
Tope told the Centre Maharashtra has scaled up vaccination to cover over 4 lakh beneficiaries in a day, but it was left with only 19 lakh doses that will suffice three-fours days. There are many centres where vaccination has stopped due to lack of doses. People are going back just because the Centre has not supplied adequate doses. It is very embarrassing to send back senior citizens without vaccination, he said.
State officials have tweaked the data-sheet generation a bit to ensure each booth vaccinates a minimum of 100 people; with 285 booths, 28,500 healthcare workers should be vaccinated on Tuesday
MUMBAI: The 2,000-odd healthcare workers from Mumbai who missed getting the vaccine on January 16 will get two more chances although they may have to wait a bit, report Vijay V Singh, Bhavika Jain & Malathy Iyer.
On Monday, there was confusion over the rescheduling of dates for those who missed the shot. While city civic officials said these names would be added to the back of the 1.3-lakh-long list of healthcare workers who have been shortlisted for the first phase, a state government official said that efforts were being made to accommodate these names in this week itself.
India News: MUMBAI: In a bid to curb crimes against women and children in Maharashtra, the state cabinet on Wednesday approved two draft bills that propose death .