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Two years after pandemic outbreak, Dharavi free of COVID-19Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi, once a coronavirus hotspot and a challenge for municipal authorities in implementing containment measures,...
Is Aarogya Setu app a game changer in India's Covid fight? Six months on, opinion is divided!Central government authorities who built the app claim that contact tracing through Aarogya Setu yields a positivity rate of close to 27%, ...
WHO chief praises efforts to control COVID-19 in Mumbai's Dharavi slumDharavi, which is located in India's commercial capital Mumbai, is spread over an area of 2.5 square kilometres and has a population of 650...
Tata Memorial Hospital conducts 494 surgeries amid pandemicAt a time when cancer surgeries are either being deferred, postponed or cancelled, TMH has conducted major elective surgeries in a "COVID-1...
Offline handset retailers bet on online platform to take on e-commerce, post Covid eraOffline handset retailers are converging their online and offline channels, turning to hyperlocal business models to diversify and better c...
Concern over health of police personnel in Maharashtra, Gujarat amid Covid crisisWhile shortage of personal protective equipment has made the fight tougher, police personnel have also been finding it arduous to get teste...
Dharavi's journey to becoming Mumbai s COVID-19 hotspotIt has just been 43 days since the city's most congested ward detected its first case at Dr Baliga Nagar on April 1, setting the alarm bell...
Mumbai’s luxury realty market sees demand pull-backWhile Covid-19 hotspots and containment zones pretty much criss cross the city, these homebuyers are expected to avoid properties adjoining...
What’s going wrong in Mumbai? Central team to help find outThe decision was taken by the empowered group that coordinates the availability of hospitals, isolation and quarantine facilities, disease ...
In a fortnight, number of COVID-19 hotspot districts decreases to 129 from 170Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that 80 districts in the country have not reported any new case of COVID-19 in last sev...
In a fortnight, number of COVID-19 hotspot districts decreases to 129 from 170The number of COVID-19 hotspot districts in India as on Wednesday morning has come down to 129 from 170 a fortnight ago, but in the same pe...
Relief to under-construction projects: Mumbai, Pune not likely to benefit as both designated Covid-19 hotspotsMumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Pune have both been declared as coronavirus hotspots. The maximum construction projects are also in th...
Residents in Mumbai hotspots to be given HCQ as a preventiveResidents of civic wards in Mumbai with a high number of Covid-19 cases will be given hydroxychloroquine tablets as a preventive treatment,...
Maharashtra becomes first state to cross 3,000 Covid-19 casesThe state reported 165 more COVID-19 cases with 107 cases being reported only from Mumbai taking the total number of coronavirus cases in t...
Pvt sector drafted but Covid-19 battle rests heavily on govt hospitalsWhile several state govts have made dramatic announcements about taking over private hospitals to fight Covid-19, it is clearly the public ...
- As Mumbai races to control Covid in Dharavi, other slums emerge as hotspots
M East Ward, one of Mumbai's poorest areas, has reported 80 coronavirus positive cases so far.
Government working on urban model amid high level of cases in citiesThe ‘urban model’ exercise looks to “isolate, locate and clear” hotspots of infectious cases.
Mumbai: 50% of coronavirus patients found in four civic wardsNearly 50 per cent of the total 590 coronavirus patients found so far in Mumbai, which has emerged as one of the hotspots of coronavirus sp...
Infection spread from non-Covid section of Mumbai hospital: Wockhardt ChairmanThe hospital was turned into a containment zone after 26 nurses and 3 doctors tested positive for Covid-19.
ICMR approves antibody tests in hotspotsICMR said in an interim advisory that antibody tests can be carried out in hotspots – zones suspected to have widespread prevalence of the ...