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Covid-19: Fully prepared to vaccinate children after ICMR's approval, says BMC

Mumbai reopened schools for Classes 8-12 earlier this week.

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Mumbai: BMC to begin trial of door to door covid vaccination campaign from today

BMC) from today will begin the trial of the door-to-door campaign for covid-19 vaccination from today.

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At least half of Mumbai's minors have Covid-19 antibodies: Survey

COVID-19 and have antibodies against it, raising some hopes for levels of protection in that age group, a senior official said on Monday.

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India prepares for more covid-19 surges with oxygen plants and hospital beds

Indian cities and states are building oxygen plants and setting up new Covid-19 treatment centers, preparing for the possibility of more surges as the most recent crisis recedes.With oxygen having been in short supply in the recent surge, New Delhi, among the worst-hit places, is buying 25 oxygen tankers for transport, and building 64 small plants and one large one to produce it.“If a third wave comes, people should not suffer," Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi’s chief minister, said earlier this month.India’s financial center, Mumbai, is setting up more Covid-19 centers, adding 5,500 beds, including some for children, said Suresh Kakani, a senior official in charge of the city’s health department.

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Mumbai: Covid vaccination for ages 18-44 to continue at 5 centres tomorrow, from 9am-5pm

Vaccination for ages 18-44 to continue at the 5 centres tomorrow, from 9am-5pm.Each centre will vaccinate 500 registered Mumbaikars each, hence no walk-ins allowed.Registration on https://t.co/e3boNnKzsX mandatory#YoungAndVaccinated#WeShallOvercomeThe vaccination drive for the people in the age group of 18 to 44 years took off in Mumbai with limited access even as the city civic body stressed to have achieved the set target of inoculating 1,000 people on the first day on Saturday."We have decided to vaccinate 200 people from the 18-44 age category today at each of all the five centres and we have fully achieved this target.

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How Covid second wave is hitting India's urban affluent

infections appears to have landed on its urban affluent, a group whose lives are usually insulated from the country’s worst economic and social crises.In Mumbai, India’s financial center, more than 170,000 households are in buildings that have been sealed by government authorities, which indicates the coronavirus is spreading rapidly among the city’s middle and upper middle classes.

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BMC warns of action for flouting norms amid rise in COVID-19 cases

COVID- 19 cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to register offences against people who violate safety guidelines, an official said on Thursday.The civic body has intensified action against people found without masks in public, and will take action against function halls, gymnasiums and other establishments that don't follow safety norms, the official said.It has decided to fine function halls, gymnasiums and restaurants if the number of patrons/ attendees is found to be beyond the permissible limit, Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner, told PTI.These establishments will be prosecuted if they continue to flout the norms, he said.The permissible limit of guests at function halls is 50, while restaurants are

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BMC setting up new COVID-19 vaccine storage facility in Mumbai

MUMBAI : The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is setting up a new COVID-19 vaccine storage facility at one its buildings in Kanjurmarg area here, officials said on Wednesday.The new vaccine storage facility will be in addition to the existing cold storage facilities at four civic-run hospitals in the city, BMC's additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani told PTI.The BMC has identified its own five-storey building at Kanjurmarg in the eastern suburbs for the new COVID-19 vaccine storage facility, which will be set up on its first floor, another civic official said.Currently, the Sion Hospital, Nair Hospital, KEM Hospital and Cooper Hospital here have vaccine storage facilities, he said.These hospitals have a limited vaccine storage

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BMC to conduct study to assess efficacy of AI-based COVID test

MUMBAI : The Mumbai civic body has decided to conduct a study to assess the efficacy of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology which claims to detect coronavirus infection within half a minute, a senior official said on Monday.The 'non-invasive voice sample analysis' claims to detect the viral infection by analysing sound waves of patients."This technology is in the initial stage and its results need to be cross-checked.

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Mumbai covid-19 situation 'in control': BMC official

MUMBAI : The COVID-19 situation "is in control" in Mumbai with the number of positive cases daily being reported below 1,500, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said.Everyday, 6,000 to 7,000 tests are being done and most of the citizens are following the safety protocols, additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani told PTI.The city has been daily reporting less than 1,500 COVID-19 cases since the last many days."The situation is in control," Kakani said.After the outbreak of COVID-19 in the city, the BMC focussed on slum pockets by tracing high risk contacts and sending them to quarantine centres, and if they tested positive, they were kept at isolation facilities, he said.In the slum areas, the BMC

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Mumbai braces for monsoon ailments amid raging covid-19

BMC has started preparing for the monsoon by ramping up bed capacity at public and private hospitals

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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