Central India

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.

The Maharashtra government will vaccinate all citizens free of cost against coronavirus, state Minister Nawab Malik announced Sunday.

In order to avoid any oxygen-related emergency across Mumbai’s hospitals, the city’s civic body on Friday issued Standard Operating Procedure that all wards offices, hospitals and public health departments will have to strictly follow. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has issued orders for compiling a list of private hospitals, their oxygen suppliers and the types of cylinders available for refilling.

a fire at a Covid-19 hospital in Vasai in Maharashtra on Friday claimed the lives of at least 13 patients.