COVID

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

COVID and crematorium: Slum dwellers grapple with smoke, stench and fear of disease

9:52 pm April 25, 2021

New Delhi: The smoke hangs in an ash grey cloud over their homes and the acrid smell from more than 200 cremations a day doesn’t leave, they say, permeating as it were their very pores. For the residents of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Camp, living next to a crematorium is as much a struggle as keeping […]

Gambhir says his foundation would distribute Fabiflu, oxygen cylinders across Delhi

7:20 pm April 25, 2021

New Delhi: BJP MP and former cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Sunday said that his foundation would distribute anti-viral drug Fabiflu and oxygen cylinders to COVID-19 patients across the national capital which is seeing a surge in COVID-19 infections that has pushed its medical infrastructure to the limits. The medicines and cylinders were earlier being distributed […]

Plan prepared to vaccinate all adults in 3 months: CM Kejriwal

Lockdown extended by another week as COVID-19 cases surge in Delhi

7:16 pm April 25, 2021

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced extension of the ongoing lockdown in Delhi for another week, saying the severity of COVID-19 was unabated and positivity rate has been as high as 36 percent in the last few days. The lockdown imposed on April 19 night will now continue till 5 AM on […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Europe reopens but COVID patients still overwhelm ICU teams

10:28 pm April 24, 2021

PARIS: Cradling the head of the deeply sedated COVID-19 patient like a precious jewel in his hands, Dr. Alexy Tran Dinh steered his intensive-care nurses through the delicate process of rolling the woman off her stomach and onto her back, guiding the team like a dance instructor. They moved only on Tran Dinh’s count, in […]

‘Please help’: Delhi hospitals appeal for assistance amid severe oxygen crisis

8:40 pm April 24, 2021

New Delhi: Narin Sehgal, the director of a hospital in Delhi, really don’t know how to help his patients in a situation like this. Amid an unprecedented crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country, some “helpless” hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility, while […]