BMC health workers collect swab samples of outstation travelers for COVID-19 testing at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai on January 11, 2022. (PTI photo)
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday that as the state recorded 46,723 new cases of COVID-19 in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, it suggests that the COVID curve has not flattened and hence relaxations in the state in the near future. Impossible. ,
However, he said that even though the cases are increasing, there is no need to panic.
“Out of the total active cases, only 2.8 per cent required hospitalization and only 0.32 per cent of these cases required the patient to be put on a ventilator. In 86 per cent of the cases, patients would have been left at home or on a covid care facilities,” Tope said, adding that due to the shortage of vaccines, the Maharashtra government would seek additional doses Meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday,
“We are short of Covaxin as it was being given to children and now it has to be given as a precaution. There is a shortage of Covaxin and we are getting calls from the district authorities, so we will request the Union Health Minister to give us enough stock of the vaccine. We will demand 40 lakh doses of Covaxin and 50 lakh doses of Covishield.”
Many people are opting for self-test and their results are not informed to the authorities. “If you are self-testing, local authorities should also be informed if they are testing positive. This will help in keeping a watch on the patients during the quarantine,” Tope said.
2,700 Pune Police test COVID positive since pandemic started
Meanwhile, as many 2,700 police officers have tested positive for Covid-19 Since the start of the pandemic in the city of Pune.
At present 264 policemen are Kovid positive and are in isolation.
On Wednesday, Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta said that the police is following all the COVID rules and regulations enforced by the government.
Pune Police has been given several sets of immunity boosters and asked to follow a fitness regime. Police said they have lost 20 officers to the deadly virus since 2020 and more infections in the unit are slowing down investigations into major cases.
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