Delhi

Taking steps to ramp up capacity to transport liquid oxygen with city: Delhi govt

11:22 pm May 6, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi government has taken a number of steps to ramp up the capacity to transport liquid oxygen, including tracking of tankers via GPS and putting a decentralized management system in place for distribution of the life-saving gas within the city, an official statement said on Thursday. The Delhi government team tracks the movement of each and […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Won’t let anyone die due to oxygen shortage in Delhi if govt gets 700 MT supply daily: Kejriwal

11:11 pm May 6, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi received 730 metric tonnes of medical oxygen for the first time amid a crippling shortage, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday and asserted that no one will die due to lack of the life-saving gas if the Centre maintains the same level of supply till the second COVID wave lasts. While Kejriwal wrote […]

Centre raises Delhi’s daily oxygen quota to 590 MT

11:56 pm May 1, 2021

New Delhi: Amid an acute shortage of oxygen in Delhi hospitals, the Centre on Saturday raised the national capital’s daily quota of the life-saving gas to 590 metric tonne from 490 MT. According to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Delhi will get an additional 75 metric tonne of oxygen from LINDE Kalinganagar and […]

Delhi CM announces extension of lockdown till May 10

11:42 pm May 1, 2021

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced an extension of the ongoing lockdown in Delhi by another week on Saturday amid a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases as the national capital battles an acute shortage of beds and medical oxygen in its hospitals. “Lockdown in Delhi is being extended by one week,” Kejriwal said 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 […]