Madhya Pradesh Saturday reported 11,598 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 90 deaths, taking the tally of infections to 6,60,712 and the toll to 6,334, the state health department said.
The junior doctors who serve in COVID-19 wards are not part of the strike but they too would join in if demands are not met, their association warned.
State IEC Bureau deputy director Archana Mundir said vaccination will be on the basis of pre-registration and will take place between 9 am and 5 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The curfew, in force since April 12 with extensions on April 19 and 26, was to end at 6:00 am on Monday, he added.
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Javed Khan-an auto driver in Bhopal has fully converted his three-wheeler into a service ambulance, news agency ANI reported.
The order suspending interstate movement of passenger buses and All India Permit vehicles between MP and UP was issued by state transport commissioner's office in view of the rise in COVID cases.
Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on April 29 said BJP is doing politics on corpses amid COVID-19 2nd wave.
With the vaccination process for persons aged above 18 years beginning from May 1 onwards, the government has placed an order for 45 lakh doses of Covishield for the first month.
"CM Shivraj Chouhan has decided to extend the corona curfew till May 7," state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said.
"Lockdown, mask, sanitizer, corona curfew are all temporary arrangements, the vaccine is the permanent solution and I urge people especially youth to consider it as their national duty," Mishra said.
An Oxygen Express with 6 containers of medical oxygen reached Bhopal on Wednesday morning from Jharkhand's Bokaro.
BJP is setting up a Covid-19 isolation facility in Bhopal. The facility will have 1,000 beds.
The package will also be offered to pre-existing and operational medical colleges, hospitals and nursing homes provided they set up units for production of oxygen or its storage cylinders.
In a bid to address the bed crunch in hospitals amid rising Covid-19 cases, a new isolation facility has been set up Army in Bhopal to tide over the crisis. The facility has 150 beds where Covid-19 patients will be quarantined and undergo treatment. The facility was set up jawans in just 48 hours.
COVID-19: A new isolation facility has been set up Indian Army in Bhopal to address bed crunch in hospitals.
In his address, Chouhan said the infection positivity rate (detections per 100 tests) had come down from 24.29 per cent on April 22 to 23.01 per cent as on Sunday.
The 'corona curfew' imposed in Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh to tackle the surge in COVID-19 cases has been extended till May 3, an official said on Sunday.
Madhya Pradesh on Saturday reported 12,918 COVID-19 cases, taking its tally to 4,85,703, including 5,041 deaths.
In a bid to address the bed crunch in hospitals amid rising COVID-19 cases, the West Central Railways has deployed 20 isolation coaches at Bhopal station. watch ground report.
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