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On Monday, November 29, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) alerted all its ward rooms, hospitals and jumbo centres about the new COVID-19 variant Omicron. BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has directed officials to ramp up daily testing to 50k samples.

Personnel of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) continued to demand the merger with the state government, whilst continuing their strike on Monday, November 15, causing bus operations to be non-functional at all the 250 depots in Maharashtra, stated officials, reported the PTI.

In the year 2020, Maharashtra saw an increase in students suicide cases. The state has a record of having the highest suicides among students. During the COVID-19 year, 1,648 students died by suicide in the state, reveals the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.

On Monday, October 18, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar warned that the threat of the third wave of COVID-19 is not yet over. She further added that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is ready to vaccinate children. However, they are still waiting for the guidelines from the Central...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday released a list of centres administering the vaccines today (June 4).This comes a day after the civic body suspended the vaccination drive in civic- and state-run centres for a day on Thursday, June 3, due to a shortage of doses.

Amid the ongoing second wave of coronavirus, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government has already started prepping up for the third wave to minimize its impact. Meanwhile, according to the latest reports, more than 8,000 children have contracted the virus in the month of May in Maharashtra...

Amidst the shortage of vaccines across the country, Mumbai’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has invited global tenders in order to purchase one crore doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to speed up the vaccination drive in the city.