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Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia tweeted today that many of the smaller, private hospitals have been raising an alarm even when they have considerable stock of oxygen

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all citizens to be vaccinated and exercise caution, saying the "storm" of infections had shaken India, as the country set a new global record of the most number of COVID-19 infections in a day.

Delhi's crisis - triggered by a devastating new wave of Covid infections that has crippled the city's health infrastructure - has forced relatives to run around for oxygen and medicines and led to panic among hospitals

The Delhi Police, in an attempt to help families of Covid patients find convalescent plasma easily, is now preparing an extensive data bank of willing donors and connecting them with patients.

Coronavirus patient Vidhya Devi, 70, should have been in emergency care at a New Delhi hospital, but instead she lay on the backseat of a car outside a Sikh temple, battling for breath, as she was connected to an oxygen tank on the street.

Delhi's Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has suspended admissions due to shortage of medical oxygen, a source in the hospital said today, amid an escalating crisis over Covid cases spiraling in the capital.

Delhi is likely to extend the lockdown by another week as the city's healthcare system buckles under the pressure of an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases, sources have said.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Saturday said one side of all highways at Delhi borders, where farmers have been camping for months to protest the new farm laws, have been opened to ensure free passage for oxygen tankers and ambulances amid the CO

Delhi recorded the highest single-day rise in its COVID-19 death count with 357 more people dying due to the viral disease on Saturday as well as over 24,000 new cases, according to the latest bulletin issued by the health department.

The Delhi government has listed 30 sites from where one can get the anti-viral drug remdesivir for critical COVID-19 patients. The Delhi Police have been asked to provide good security at these sites.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will add 250 beds to Delhi's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel COVID-19 Hospital on Saturday evening.

The centre and the Delhi government had a terse exchange in court today over supply of medical oxygen to hospitals in the national capital amid a spiralling COVID-19 crisis.

Seventy per cent of the city traders are in favour of extending the lockdown beyond April 26 amid the worsening coronavirus crisis in the capital, said the Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) on Saturday.

Twenty people died last night at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi due to shortage of medical oxygen, a top officialat the hospital said today, highlighting the worsening situation in the national capital's hospitals.

Batra Hospital in the national capital's Tughlakabad Institutional Area received emergency oxygen supply from the Delhi government moments after it exhausted its stock, officials said today.

Delhi Reports Record 348 Deaths In 24 Hours; 24,331 New Covid Cases

Moolchand hospital chain in Delhi sent out an SOS this morning over oxygen shortage as it appealed for urgent help from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minsiter Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Anil Baijal.

Facing a severe shortage of medical oxygen, the Delhi government has requested the Railways to operate 'Oxygen Express' trains to save COVID-19 patients gasping for breath in the city's hospitals, Railway Board Chairman Suneet Sharma said on Friday.

Air passengers from Delhi and four other states will have to carry Covid-negative certificates, not older than 72 hours, to enter West Bengal from April 26, the state government has informed the centre.

Amid a dire shortage of medical oxygen across the country, 48 cylinders of oxygen were seized from a house in Delhi on Friday.

The UK strain is driving the Covid surge in Delhi, an analysis of samples has revealed. Data released by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says over 400 cases of the UK strain and 76 of the Indian double mutants were found in Delhi.

A Gurudwara in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has done in the past few days what many big hospitals in the National Capital Region have frequently failed at: providing oxygen to critically patients and that, too, free of cost.

Delhi's Max hospital chain said today it would not admit any more patients until oxygen supplies stabilized, in an escalating crisis over Covid cases spiraling in the capital.

Twenty-five "sickest patients" have died in the last 24 hours at Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi, a statement from the hospital said this morning, revealing a worsening Covid crisis in the capital's hospitals.

Delhi resident Nitish Kumar was forced to keep his dead mother's body at home for nearly two days while he searched for space in the city's crematoriums - a sign of the deluge of death in the capital where coronavirus cases are surging.