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PUNE: A 20-year-old criminal on police records, Vighnesh Ashok Gore, suffered a bullet injury on his thigh after four men assaulted and opened fire at him on the Katraj-Kondhwa Road around Saturday midnight.
Senior inspector Sardar Patil of the Kondhwa police said, “Gore, who has two body offence cases to his name on police records, told the police in his statement that he had no idea who the assailants were and why they had opened fire at him. He was discharged after treatment at the Sassoon General Hospital.”
Based on Gore’s FIR lodged on Sunday morning, the police have filed a case under Section 307 (Attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code, besides the relevant provisions of the Indian Arms Act. “Gore is unemployed and stays in an SRA scheme located on the Katraj-Kondhwa Road,” Patil said.
Updated Jan 25, 2021 | 11:26 IST
Three deaths were recorded under PMC taking the toll of total deaths in Pune and the twin towns together to 9,011. Three more Covid deaths recorded in Pune city, 208 test positive in PMC | Photo Credit: IANS
Pune: More than 300 fresh cases were registered in the city yesterday. As many as 342 patients tested positive for Covid under PMC and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation limits.
Three deaths were recorded under the civic body taking the toll of total deaths in Pune and the twin towns together to 9,011. In the civic body alone, 208 people tested positive in 24 hours, taking the tally of total cases to 1, 84,682 so far.
Every healthcare worker needs to be given two doses of the vaccine four weeks apart.
PUNE: The Covid vaccination drive in Maharashtra will be conducted every week at 511 vaccination centres on five fixed days - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Archana Patil, director, health services told TOI on Friday. The decision will be effective from January 25.
“Since we have the required number of doses at our disposal, we can also increase the number of sessions at big hospitals and medical colleges,” Patil said. Currently, every centre can hold only one session covering 100 healthcare workers on a given day.
The decision to increase the centres and vaccination days was taken a day after the state received the remaining 8.7 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine needed to complete the first phase of vaccinating nearly 8 lakh healthcare workers in Maharashtra on Thursday. “We have now increased the number of centres and daily target of vaccinating healthcare workers from
Updated Jan 23, 2021 | 10:43 IST
Across Maharashtra, the number of vaccinations was at 73% with a total of 21,610 getting the vaccine. 12 vaccination centres achieved the target of 100 recipients. Pune region registers its highest number of Covid vaccinations, 73% in state | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: On the fourth day of the Covid vaccination programme, the region reported the highest number of vaccinations at 72% yesterday.
Across Maharashtra, the number of vaccinations was at 73% with a total of 21,610 getting the vaccine. Dr Sanjay Deshmukh, deputy director of health of the region, which includes Pune, Satara and Solapur districts said that yesterday, at least 3,533 of around 5,000 recipients were inoculated.
Updated Jan 23, 2021 | 09:53 IST
Nine more deaths took Pune s death toll to around 9,000. Pune continued to record more recoveries than fresh cases yesterday. Pune Covid death tally reaches 4,900 in civic limits, nine more deaths in city | Photo Credit: IANS
Pune: The Covid death count reached 4,900 in the civic body limits on Friday (January 22), with four more patients dying of Covid in the municipal regions on the last one day.
Nine more deaths took the city’s toll to around 9,000. The city continued to record more recoveries than fresh cases yesterday. A report released by the Pune district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, said that 576 patients were declared cured in the city yesterday as against 568 fresh cases.