Day: April 1, 2020

BJP supports Thackeray govt's decision to impose weekend lockdown in Maharashtra

Ration supplies: Fadnavis questions ‘contrasting’ orders

11:03 pm April 1, 2020

Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that two different orders issued by the Maharashtra government over distribution of food grains has caused confusion among owners of PDS shops and people. While Maharashtra Food and Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal had last week said that all ration card– holders will be permitted to […]

Gujarat: Congress, BJP spar over Dhaman-1 ventilators

33 new coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, count 335

10:56 pm April 1, 2020

Mumbai: The number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra increased by 33 to 335 on Wednesday, a health official said. Thirty of these cases were found in Mumbai alone, two in Pune and one in Buldhana, he said. The state had reported 302 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. Health Minister Rajesh Tope had said earlier in the […]

Woman dies of COVID-19 in Dombivli: Civic authorities

10:55 pm April 1, 2020

Thane: A suspected case of COVID-19 death has come to light in Thane district of Maharashtra. According to a release issued by the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) on Wednesday, a 46-year-old woman with a travel history to Bangkok died in Dombivli township on Tuesday. The deceased was suffering from underlying medical conditions like high blood […]

COVID-19: JNCASR develops coating to prevent transmission of infection

10:49 pm April 1, 2020

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology, claims to have developed a one-step curable anti-microbial coating which, when coated on different surfaces such as textile, plastic and so on could kill a range of virus types including COVID 19. This covalent […]

20 new coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, count 322

9:11 pm April 1, 2020

Mumbai: Twenty new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Maharashtra on Wednesday, taking the total number to 322, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said. While 18 cases had come to light earlier in the day, Tope announced in the evening that the count had gone up by two. “The total number of (coronavirus) positive cases […]