50% of Indiaâs Covid cases are from Maharashtra but testing lags behind national average
Of the total new cases in Maharashtra everyday, about 40% are from Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur & Amravati district. Amravati is most worrying with its test positivity rate at 23-24%.
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Mumbai: Maharashtra, which has always accounted for the bulk of India’s Covid-19 cases, is now contributing more than 50 per cent of the new cases in the country, in what is being feared as a second wave.
The state, however, continues to be a laggard in Covid testing, with its performance being much below the national average â which experts say is the main reason behind the high number of new cases.Â
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(Bloomberg) The biggest slump in Asian stocks since March hasnât shaken the faith of strategists, who recommend buying regional cyclical shares on expectations of a strong economic rebound from the pandemic.
(Bloomberg) The biggest slump in Asian stocks since March hasnât shaken the faith of strategists, who recommend buying regional cyclical shares on expectations of a strong economic rebound from the pandemic.
Growth can offset rate risks, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. team including Timothy Moe wrote in a note Monday, saying they prefer value cyclicals and short versus long duration ideas. Sanford C. Bernstein and Oanda Asia Pacific Pte see Asian stocks weathering a global surge in sovereign bond yields to stay ahead of their U.S. peers in 2021.
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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.
The PMC has fewer number of active Covid-19 cases at present than the neighbouring PCMC. Pune: Fewer active cases in PMC than PCMC for first time | Photo Credit: AP
The coronavirus situation is fairly under control in most regions across India. Pune, which has been among the most-affected cities due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, also has the rate of spread of the virus under its control to a large extent. Now, it has been reported that for the first time since the virus outbreak began last year, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has fewer number of active cases than the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).
Insects and blades found in meals at CoEP jumbo centre
Insects and blades found in meals at CoEP jumbo centre
ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Jan 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
The CoEP jumbo facility has been at the centre of a storm ever since it was opened in August last year.
120 remaining patients at their wits’ end over inedible food served, send it back to kitchen; infrastructure agency says steps to resolve issue being taken, while PMC promises to look into matter.
Even on the verge of its shutdown amid a dip in
COVID-19 cases, the
College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) jumbo facility continues to face unending controversy. With the authorities deciding just last week that the facility will be shut temporarily in coming days and future patients rerouted to other centres, a fresh issue has cropped up with the last few invalids admitted at the jumbo centre the quality of food served to them is so bad that it has to be sent back to the kitchen.