Pune: Around 160 passengers waiting to board the Air Asia flight (I5817) from Pune to Delhi were left in limbo for over 10 hours on Sunday at the Pune airport. Eventually, the passengers were allegedly told that the flight had been cancelled.
The flight was supposed to take off from Pune airport at around 11am and reach Delhi by around 1.15pm. “The flight was scheduled to fly at 11am so we reached the airport by 9am and completed all the formalities. So, we have been at the airport for 10 hours now. We kept asking the airline authorities to tell us what had caused the delay but they were not clear and just said that there was a technical problem,” said Ashu Madan, a passenger who had been waiting at the airport since 9am.
In the wake of rising coronavirus cases in Pune, hotels will close at 11 pm instead of 1 am, whereas non-essential activities will be allowed on roads between 11 pm and 6 am
Updated Feb 21, 2021 | 11:54 IST
Two incinerators, each having a capacity to process 300 kg/hour, are being out up at the Sangamwadi facility. In vaccination list of frontline staff in Pune, Covid waste managers go missing | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: A group of 60 frontline staff who are performing a major responsibility in the fight against Covid in the district are feeling ignored.
These are workers at the Common Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Facilities. There are two biomedical garbage processing plants in the district, one for the city located at Sangawadi and another for Pimpri-Chinchwad at Yashwantrao Chavan Municipal Hospital, which have the responsibility of collecting biomedical waste from 5,500 healthcare facilities and then incinerating or recycling it.
Updated Feb 20, 2021 | 10:15 IST
The PMC, the Pune and the railway police have together filed 4,754 cases against rule offenders in between February 10-17. Pune authorities to ensure strict action against Covid protocol offenders | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: Constant caution and care is being practiced in the city to beat Covid. Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra health minister yesterday said that lockdown was not the solution to curb increasing Covid cases.
The government will consider raising fines for violation of social gathering guidelines, but local authorities should ensure that stringent action was taken against violators, according to Tope. At present, people venturing out without masks are being levied a penalty of Rs 500.