Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol has alleged that at least 400 suspected COVID-19 deaths have gone unaccounted for in the city in July. Mohol said he raised the issue during his meeting with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday, when the latter was in the city to take stock of the coronavirus situation.
Questions are being raised over Delhi government’s official coronavirus tally that accounts for 34,687 conifrm cases and 1,085 deaths. While Delhi Municipal Coroporation claims 2098 people succumbed to disease.
India has reported about 0.3 deaths per lakh population which is amongst the lowest in the world, the Union Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
China reported 13 new coronavirus deaths, taking the toll due to the disease to 3,189, while the confirmed cases climbed to 80,824 with 11 more infections, as the country witnessed a rise in imported cases, health officials said on Saturday.
People infected with the novel coronavirus who are more than 80 years old have the highest chances of dying from infection of all age groups, according to the largest study since the highly contagious outbreak began in China, with details of nearly 44,000 cases.
The spokesman said the response plan is being drawn up "by the government with the support from the UN and our partners, prioritizing shelter, water and sanitation and non-food items."
The deaths took place in the family Gopinathan Nair between 2000 and 2017, and included Nair, his wife Sumukhi Amma and their children -- Jaybalakrishnan, Jayprakash, Jaysree -- and two nephews Unnikrishnan and Jaymadhavan.
Police leave the home of Joanna and Thomas Maher with an evidence box at Wiltshire close in Warrington, Cheshire, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, after a man and a woman, both aged 38 and from Warrington, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people in connection with the 39 bodies found in a lorry in Essex on Wednesday.
A 10-month-old baby was miraculously rescued by a fire brigade team in Pune. The miraculous rescue was captured in a video. Take a look:
Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin Tuesday in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least seven deaths were reported, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown.
Amid heavy rains, lightning struck in different parts of the city and West Bengal. This has led to 4 deaths and injured 19 which also includes four Bangladesh nationals. Two deaths due to lightning-related incidents were reported from the metropolis, and an equal number from Purulia district, he said. While 16 people were injured because of lightning strikes in Kolkata, Purulia district accounted for three more.
In the Texas border city of El Paso, a gunman opened fire Saturday morning in a shopping area packed with thousands of people during the busy back-to-school season, killing 20 and injuring more than two dozen, many of them critically.
Water from the overflowing Vishwamitri river entered several localities in Gujarat's Vadodara. Four labourers were killed when a wall collapsed due to heavy rain in Chhani area of Vadodara, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said.
A population of 5,18,623 in 691 villages in 26 revenue circles of 12 districts are currently affected by the inundation, according to a bulletin of Assam State Disaster Management Agency (ASDMA).
Floods in Bihar and Assam claimed four more lives on Tuesday taking the toll to 174, while two persons were killed due to lightning in Uttar Pradesh, even as the northern states are expected to receive widespread rains in the next few days.
Manjunath Naidu died while performing live on stage in Dubai on July 19. This isn't the first time that entertainers have lost their lives while performing live on stage. There have been several unusual deaths on the live stage earlier that have left people shocked to the core.
A total of 49 deaths and 190 cases of Japanese encephalitis have been reported till July 5 in Assam, where the transmission season is at its peak, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.
One more child died in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Wednesday due to AES. The recent death took place in the Kejriwal hospital. The death toll has reached 132 in the district.
At least 17 people have lost their lives, while 19 others have sustained injuries in various incidents of lightning and excessive rainfall across the state.
"Between April 1 last year and February this year, 2,460 people have died (of HIV infection) in Maharashtra.
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