Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 22 (ANI): Shiv Sena will take care and bear the expense of the education of the five-year-old child who survived the Worli chawl fire incident, said Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Tuesday.

Mumbai Jan 22 PTI At least seven persons were killed and 16 others injured in a major fire that broke out on the 18th floor of a residential building in Tardeo area of central Mumbai on Saturday morning an official said The blaze erupted around 7 am in Kamla building located opposite Gandhi Hospital at Gowalia Tank when many of its residents were still asleep the official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC said It is a ground plus 20-storey building The fire broke out on its 18th floor On being alerted the fire brigade personnel and police rushed the spot Several persons were injured in the incident and they were taken to different nearby hospitals he said Out of the seven injured taken to the Nair Hospital five died while two others succumbed to their injuries at two other hospitals - one each in Bhatia Hospital and Kasturba Hospital - he added At present 13 persons are undergoing treatment in Bhatia Hospital two in Nair Hospital and one in Kasturba Hospital the official said On being alerted 13 fire engines and seven water jetties were rushed to the building to douse the fire which was tagged as level-3 major At present the firefighters covered the blaze from all sides he said Soon after the fire broke out on the 18th floor residents started running out with their family members There are at least six flats on each floor The blaze engulfed the 18th and 19th floors and some residents were trapped there another official said He added that according to some residents the power supply in the building went off after the fire Many of the residents of the building were asleep when the fire broke out he said adding that firefighting operation is still on PTI DC NP NP

Mumbai Dec 31PTI As much as 55 per cent out of 282 samples of coronavirus patients from Mumbai sent for genome sequencing have tested positive for the Omicron variant the civic body said on Friday This was the seventh batch of samples sent to a lab at the Kasturba Hospital of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC and the National Institute of Virology Pune a BMC release said Out of 282 samples 156 55 per cent were found to be of Omicron variant 89 32 per cent of Delta Derivative and 37 13 per cent of Delta variant Only one of these patients a senior citizen infected with the Delta Derivative died the BMC said He also suffered from diabetes and hypertension and had taken only the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine it added Further only 17 of these 282 patients needed hospitalization Nine of the hospitalized patients had Omicron infection None of these Omicron patients showed any symptoms In addition they did not need oxygen supply or admission to ICU the release said Nevertheless people should not let their guard down and should take precautions the BMC added Of the 17 patients who were hospitalized 10 had taken both the doses of vaccines three had taken only one dose while four had not taken even one dose PTI KK KRK KRK KRK

Mumbai, September 28: Residents of several areas of Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on Tuesday complaint about gas smell around 2 pm in the afternoon. Following which the emergency teams of the  Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MGL) inspected various areas where the residents complaint of smell of gas leak. The teams used gas detection equipment to check for […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 22 (ANI): Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar on Sunday tied rakhi to COVID-19 frontline workers and thanked them for their selfless work done during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 12 (ANI): Scientists have developed a way of using infra-red technology to rapidly test which patients are most at risk of becoming severely unwell from COVID-19.