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Delhi has just 3 days’ stock of vaccines for 18-44 age group: Sisodia

7:19 pm May 17, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi has limited vaccine doses for citizens between 18-44 years, which will only last for three more days, said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday, adding that the Delhi government may have to shut its centres if Centre is unable to provide adequate doses for this age group. Addressing a digital press […]

Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin for 45-plus age group: Atishi

6:51 pm May 17, 2021

New Delhi: AAP MLA Atishi said on Monday that Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin left for the 45 plus age group and they will have to temporarily shut down centres administering it. The centres administering Covaxin to the 18-44 age group have been closed. While issuing the vaccination bulletin, Atishi said […]

COVID: AstraZeneca pledges USD 250,000 as humanitarian aid to India

11:59 pm May 11, 2021

New Delhi: Drug major AstraZeneca on Tuesday said it has pledged USD 250,000 (over Rs 1.8 crore) in humanitarian aid to India to support relief activities amid the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping across the country. The aid to India is part of the USD 1 million which the British-Swedish multinational has earmarked for relief initiatives across communities which have been […]

Virus-hit Russia reports 25% death increase in January-March

10:40 pm May 1, 2021

MOSCOW: Russia’s state statistical service says the number of deaths nationwide in the first three months of 2021 was more than 25% higher than the same period a year ago, and it reported thousands more deaths due to COVID-19 in March than tallied by the country’s coronavirus task force. More than 583,000 people died in […]

12 patients die as Delhi’s Batra Hospital runs out of oxygen

8:22 pm May 1, 2021

New Delhi: Twelve patients at Delhi’s Batra Hospital, including a senior doctor, died on Saturday and at least two other hospitals reported precipitous drops in their oxygen stocks. With the death of the 12 patients in the south Delhi hospital — which announced at 12.30 p.m. that it had run out of oxygen — the […]