Covid-19: Maharashtra crosses 50,000 mark, Mumbai at 30,542

As a care worker in Salford , Yemi Opere often finds himself working overtime just to make ends meet.

KRESGEVILLE, Pa. - A late-night house fire claimed the lives of five people in Pennsylvania, authorities said.The victims are an adult female and four children, Monroe County Coroner Tom Yanac said.The fire broke out late Thursday night in the ranch-style home on Brook Road in Polk Township.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 6,618 PCR-confirmed cases of Covid-19.

Manitoba won’t be influenced by dropped COVID-19 restrictions in other provinces, Atwal says Neighbouring Saskatchewan and Alberta have already made moves to eliminate many restrictions in their provinces. On Wednesday, Dr.

COVID on Friday, with 435 in intensive care units as figures continue to trend downwards.This is down by 68 hospitalizations and a decrease of 10 in ICUs since the previous day. Last Friday, there were 2,634 hospitalizations with 517 in ICU.The province recently began distinguishing between those who were admitted to hospital directly because of COVID, and those who were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for the virus.Of the 1,829 people in hospital with COVID-19, 54 per cent of them were admitted because of the virus, while 46 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID-19.Of the 435 people in ICUs with the virus, around 80 per cent were admitted because of COVID, while around 20 per cent were admitted for other reasons.

Mumbai, taking the cumulative tally to 10,53,413, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday. 

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Kate Middleton is giving viewers a look into how she reads her bedtime stories to her three children — Prince George, 8, Princess Charlotte, 6, and Prince Louis, 3.The 40-year-old Duchess of Cambridge took part in a special on-camera reading of the children's book,, on the BBC's show. The wife of Prince William participated in the reading as part of Children's Mental Health Week. On Friday, released a clip from the episode, showing Kate signing off. In the video, the duchess is sitting on a blanket in a white printed turtleneck sweater and jeans as a crackling fire goes next to her. «Wow, what an encouraging tale,» she says.

Toys of the Beijing 2022 mascot, panda Bing Dwen Dwen, are seen during a flower ceremony fat the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. (Photo by Sergei BobylevTASS via Getty Images) Police are punishing Chinese traders for cashing in by reselling scarce dolls of Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at up to 10 times retail price.Buyers stood in line overnight in freezing weather and emptied store shelves after the Winter Games opened Feb.

Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, speaks virtually during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Friday, Nov.

In Ipsos polling exclusive to Global News, nearly half of Canadians say while they may not agree with everything that is being said, protesters’ frustration is legitimate and worthy of sympathy. A slim majority think the opposite.

The trucker convoy protest movement against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions that has paralyzed the Canadian capital and spilled over to key Canada-U.S. border crossings has the sympathy of many Canadians, according to a new poll.

Wordle game displayed on a phone screen and The New York Times logo displayed in the background are seen in this illustration photo. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NEW YORK - Puzzle fans looking for their fix of gray, yellow and (hopefully) green squares are finding that Wordle has moved, a few weeks after its purchase by the New York Times.Users logging on Thursday and Friday are beginning to be redirected from the familiar plain white website and instead winding up on a similar page hosted by the Times.

DETROIT - The truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions is tightening the screws on the auto industry, forcing Ford, Toyota and General Motors to shut down plants or otherwise curtail production on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.The bumper-to-bumper demonstration entered its fourth day Thursday at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products back and forth across the border.The bridge is the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries.RELATED: 'I understand why, but it makes it harder on us': Canadian trucker talks lost time, moneyFord said its Windsor, Ontario, engine plant reopened Thursday after being shut down on Wednesday because of a lack of parts. But the factory and the company’s assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, are operating at reduced capacity, the automaker said."This interruption on the Detroit-Windsor bridge hurts customers, auto workers, suppliers, communities and companies on both sides of the border," Ford said in a statement.

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SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) SpaceX’s Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world's most powerful rocket ever built — could come in another month or two.While he anticipates failures, he’s confident Starship will reach orbit by the end of this year.Musk provided his first major Starship update in more than two years while standing alongside the 390-foot (119-meter) rocket at SpaceX's Texas spaceport.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, on Feb. 10, 2022.

The University of Regina Cougars Women’s Hockey team picked up two key victories last weekend against the Manitoba Bisons, thanks in no small part to the play of winger Lilla Carpenter-Boesch.

Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday.

Dustin Lynch’s album "Blue in the Sky" has finally dropped. The country star announced the surprise follow-up to "Tullahoma" in a tweet on Jan. 19 – about a year after releasing the project that included a duo of No.

Two fake companies that fraudulently took £180,000 from Covid-19 financial assistance schemes have been shut down.

Check here all that WHO said on long COVID. Live Q&A on #COVID19 and Omicron sub-variant BA.2 with Dr @mvankerkhove and @DrAbdiMahamud. #AskWHO https://t.co/NVQMa8HHk7

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Barbara Corbo, a former Mercy Career & Technical High School teacher, was accused of engaging in "sexual contact" with a student.  PHILADELPHIA - A former Philadelphia teacher has been charged after being accused of sexually assaulting a student, according to police. On Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, Philadelphia police arrested 30-year-old Barbara Corbo on the 800 block of Kelly Drive in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Corbo taught at Mercy Career & Technical High School in Philadelphia.

Covid lockdown was introduced, which means by now most of us are used to testing ourselves to see if we have been infected with the virus.Many people may now associate the phrase ‘positive result’ with a confirmed case of the infectious virus that has caused the pandemic.But, that was not always the case.This was clear when a woman messaged a friend with a picture of her pregnancy test - which gave a positive result.Having snapped a photo of the white stick portraying two red lines, the women wrote “positive” with a neutral face emoji.However, there was a bit of a modern day mix-up.Just like how lateral flow tests show two red lines for a positive result, the friend thought they tested for Covid - not for being pregnant.The confused friend replied: “Damn, I hope you feel better.”Along with a prayer emoji, they added: “Quarantine.”Stunned at the response, the pregnant woman slammed: “Are you stupid?”A screenshot of the text was posted to Facebook by user Amber Lee Clark which has now racked up thousands of likes and 33,000 shares.People were left in stitches at the confusion so tagged their mates with laughing emojis whilst they poked fun at the mix-up.One person chuckled: “I hope she takes all the necessary precautions that the CDC has lined out. Don’t need that s*** spreading”Another added: “Name your kid Covid.”Whilst a third user related: “Remember when I sent you my Covid results and you thought I was pregnant?”Someone else shared: “I laughed too hard at this.” Get all the biggest Lifestyle news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the free Daily Star Hot Topics newsletter

Patty Hajdu says the number of COVID-19 infections in First Nations communities has begun to decline, bringing hope that the worst of the Omicron wave has passed.Hajdu says she understands why Indigenous leaders are sounding an alarm that progress could be lost in regions where provincial governments are rapidly moving to lift public health orders.“Indigenous leaders obviously are concerned,” Hajdu said during a news conference Thursday. High anxiety levels expected in Canadians wary of COVID restrictions lifting - experts Daily active case counts in Indigenous communities have declined 13.2 per cent from last week.

Uddhav Thackeray asks ministers and universities to look into various options, including the average marks or grades system and giving students options to take exams for obtaining marks/grades required for their employment or higher education

Mumbai: In a bid to encourage doctors in the midst of the fight against coronavirus, the Maharashtra government today announced a substantial hike in the honorarium of doctors serving their bonds, bringing it at par with doctors working on a contract basis. "This will further strengthen their resolve in this war against COVID-19," Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray tweeted.

MUMBAI : Maharashtra government, following a meeting of the chief minister Uddhav Thackeray with the state’s other key ministers, on Wednesday, refuted all the claims that were made by the state’s former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and said the state government has not yet received most of the benefits that it is ought to receive from the central government.

PUNE : A Pune-based union working for the rights of employees of IT companies has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, seeking intervention to save jobs of employees who have been laid-off or are facing pay cuts in the wake of COVID-19 crisis.

NEW DELHI : A political storm is brewing in Maharashtra over the state government’s alleged failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and senior BJP leader Narayan Rane submitted an official memorandum to governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari demanding President’s rule citing the surge in covid-19 cases, Shiv Sena on Tuesday asserted that the state government was on a ‘strong’ footing.

MUMBAI : Two months after Maharashtra began its fight against coronavirus, it has been able to break the chain by contact tracing and doubling the rate of corona patients from three days to 14 days, the government said today.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said the country's financial capital is ready to face the challenges that the southwest monsoon will bring in its wake.

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting with NCP president Sharad Pawar here, senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said on Tuesday while asserting that the state government is "strong".

Mumbai: With the number of covid-19 infection cases crossing 50,000 in Maharashtra and 31,000 in Mumbai alone, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said late on Monday evening that a couple of jumbo facilities have been created in Mumbai for treating covid-19 patients.

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday dismissed the opposition BJP's demand for a package from the state government to tide over the COVID-19 crisis, saying that previous such measures had failed to give any tangible benefits.

Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik said that the state has agreed to allow 25 take offs and 25 landings every day for domestic flights from Mumbai

After several speculations and opposition on the resumption of domestic flight operations from Monday in Maharashtra due to the increasing number of novel coronavirus cases in the state, Maharashtra government on Sunday agreed to allow limited takeoffs and landings at Mumbai airport.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said people will have to learn to live with coronavirus as the number of cases continues to rise in the state over the past few days.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said he has requested the Centre to give the state some more time to resume domestic air travel.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Saturday said that the number of Covid-19 patients in Mumbai is doubling over a period of 14 days

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday met key ministers of the state to discuss ways to protect agriculture revenue amid the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of covid-19.

MUMBAI : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, on Wednesday, said that the state, which is the home to Bollywood film industry, is open to work on a plan to allow resumption of the entertainment industry if it agrees for a limited number of filming or post-production processes and strictly follow physical distancing rules within a restricted environment.

State government says that except for containment zones, from 22 May all other areas within red zones can keep both essential and non-essential shops open

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray said the government has prepared about 5.87 lakh workers for 19 different types of businesses in order to resume economic activities and provide livelihood to public of the state

MUMBAI : Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said that the state government is attempting to control the transmission of covid-19 pandemic in the state before the onset of monsoon.