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India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

11:10 pm April 28, 2021

New Delhi: Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of India’s largest state. But the hospital wouldn’t let him in without a registration slip from the district’s chief medical officer. By the […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Ensure smooth supply of firewood to crematoriums, North Delhi Mayor urges CM

11:05 pm April 28, 2021

New Delhi: With municipal-run crematoriums facing a shortage of wood for funeral pyres in the face of surging Covid-19 fatalities, North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash Wednesday urged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to direct the forest department ensure smooth supply of firewood to these facilities. The national capital has reported 4,063 Covid-19 deaths in April so […]

Oxygen shortage: Delhi Hospitals say situation better, reopen admissions

9:52 pm April 27, 2021

New Delhi: After days of scrambling for oxygen, hospitals in Delhi on Tuesday said they are in a comparatively better situation in terms of supply and have reopened admissions. Amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital, medical facilities across the city and its suburbs put out desperate pleas for help on […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Delhi to import 21 ready-to-use oxygen plants from France: CM Kejriwal

9:43 pm April 27, 2021

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that the Delhi government has decided to import 21 ready-to-use oxygen plants from France and 18 oxygen tankers from Bangkok, to ensure a steady supply of oxygen in hospitals across the national capital. He also said that within the next one month, the Delhi government will […]

SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system

10:08 pm April 26, 2021

New Delhi: Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors across the country, which on Monday set another record for new coronavirus infections […]