Cyclone Tauktae: Corporators and resident groups clear uprooted trees on their own
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Four days after cyclone Tauktae hit Mumbai, public representatives and residents welfare groups have now started to take matters into their own hands and clear uprooted trees. According to BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 812 trees had uprooted and 1,454 branches had fallen during the cyclone between May 16 and May 18 in all the 24 municipal wards of the city. Civic officials said that this is the highest number of trees that fell during a cyclone or storm in many years. As a result, the garden cell is taking more time than usual to clear uprooted trees.
COVID-19 in Mumbai: Housing societies, citizenâs group approach BMC for vaccination drives
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With more and more people becoming eager to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots, housing societies and citizen s groups have approached BMC to arrange vaccination camps within their society premises or in the neighbourhood. The idea is to get maximum people vaccinated and avoid overcrowding.
After the BMC announced that it will open vaccination centres in all the 227 divisions of municipal wards, it also added that housing societies can tie-up with private hospitals and dispensaries so that camps could be arranged on their premises.
Dhaval Shah, founder and spokesperson of Lokhandwala Oshiwara Citizen s Association (LOCA), an apex body of housing societies under which nearly 500 buildings are affiliated said that they have already pitched the idea of conducting a vaccination drive in Versova. We expressed our idea of vaccinating all the eligible citizens to the BMC by arran
Mumbai: Housing societies implement strict rules to avert virus spread
Residents in Bandra, Andheri and Goregaon are extra cautious in wake of corona spike
In the wake of the new COVID-19 guidelines, residents of various housing societies in the city have adopted new measures to ensure that there is no spread inside their society premises. According to the new rules, if more than five positive cases are reported from any housing society, then that would be declared as a mini containment zone.
As a result, Mumbaikars living at areas like Bandra, Andheri, Goregaon, which has a high growth rate, have become serious with the new guidelines and have started to implement stricter measures to restrict movement of the citizens.
COVID-19 in Mumbai: Five wards in western suburbs record 25% spike in cases
In the past week, the active case count in five municipal wards of the western suburbs has increased by 25 per cent. Last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, these wards -R Central (Borivali), K West (Andheri West, Juhu and Versova), R South (Kandivli), P North (Malad), and K east (Andheri East and Jogeshwari)- emerged as the hotspots in Mumbai.
As per the latest BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data, these five wards constitute approximately 32 per cent of the total active cases in Mumbai. Presently, Mumbai has 9,690 active cases, of which 3,126 cases are from the mentioned wards. Earlier, on February 22, there were 2,387 active cases in these wards.