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Yamuna Sports Complex starts functioning as COVID centre

11:52 pm April 21, 2021

New Delhi: The Yamuna Sports Complex started functioning as COVID centre on Wednesday amid spiralling coronavirus infections and huge shortage of beds in Delhi. The centre has a total bed capacity of 880 beds, which includes 200 beds with oxygen supply. It will be monitored by Seemapuri Subdivisional Magistrate Shailendra Kumar Singh, according to a […]

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Delhi HC: If Tatas can divert oxygen they are generating for their steel plants to medical use, why can’t others?

10:46 pm April 21, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to ”forthwith” provide oxygen by whatever means to the hospitals in the national capital which are treating serious COVID-19 patients and are facing scarcity of oxygen. ”Why is the Centre not waking up to the gravity of the situation? We are shocked and dismayed […]

About 2500 COVID beds still vacant in Delhi: Deputy CM Sisodia

7:35 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday warned the hospitals showing inaccurate information on the Delhi Corona App of stringent action. Sisodia, addressing a press conference, stated that the Delhi government is working on war footing to fight COVID-19, wherein 2700 new beds will be added in hospitals within the next 4-5 […]

Economic interests cannot override human lives, cut down industrial use of oxygen immediately: HC

7:33 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that economic interests cannot override human lives and suggested some reduction in steel and petroleum production to divert oxygen to COVID-19 patients. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said if the lockdown continues then everything would come to a halt and therefore, what […]

Some Delhi hospitals left with just a few hours of oxygen: Kejriwal

7:27 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged the Centre to provide medical oxygen to Delhi, saying some hospitals are going to run out of it in a few hours. He had on Sunday termed the shortage of oxygen for coronavirus patients an “emergency”. Kejriwal also wrote to Union Minister of Commerce and Industries […]