Central India

Tanveer Warsi, a local journalist who also associated with NDTV and ANI from Rajgarh District of Madhya Pradesh has been booked under a case of medical negligence alleging him of being the part of a private hospital management after he continuously reported the inactions of government authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 84-year-old Jesuit priest and an under-trial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, Father Stan Swamy, 84, tested COVID-19 positive at the Holy Family Hospital on Sunday.

Jailed human rights defender Stan Swamy on Friday told the Bombay High Court that he did not wish to be admitted to a hospital, and urged the court to consider his request for interim bail, legal website Bar and Bench reported.

In the petition, counsels of Hany Babu claimed that his eye infection would be a possible Mucormycosis, also known as "black fungus", is a rare but serious infection, which has been found in several COVID-19 patients, since he has tested for coronavirus.

Family members and comrades of the accused in Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, serving as under-trial prisoners in Mumbai’s Taloja and Byculla jails, demanded the release of all political prisoners at a virtual press conference on Saturday. Their exhortation comes due to a lack of healthcare workers to treat the inmates during the pandemic.

Hany Babu, a 54 year old Professor of English Literature and Linguists at Delhi University and an undertrial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, who has been in custody since July 2020 without trial, has tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday.

even a day’s delay may lead to an irreversible deterioration leading to partial or complete loss of sight as well as a life-threatening complication if it affects the brain.

The day after news about Javed Khan, an autorickshaw driver from Bhopal, who sold his wife's jewellery to convert his autorickshaw into an ambulance for COVID-19 patients won the internet, Madhya Pradesh Police detained him on his way to the hospital.

On Thursday, prominent activist Sudha Bharadwaj, imprisoned in the Bhima-Koregaon case, called her daughter Maaysha from the Byculla prison and said she had diarrhoea, fatigue, and had lost her appetite and sense of taste for the last three weeks.

Taking a dig at the Madhya Pradesh government's handling of the surge in coronavirus cases in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath said, "There is not a single hospital in the state that has medicine, injection, oxygen, ambulance, or bed & CM is saying everything is sufficient."

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked the Union government to declare the coronavirus pandemic as a "national calamity."

"Ujjain police has arrested me under articles 188/353/269/270/03 and they were preparing to send me to jail. My only crime was that I raised awareness among the hospital administration about negligence with COVID-19 patients and was distributing oxygen cylinders," she tweeted Tuesday morning.