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Patients are being turned back hospitals because, despite their severe symptoms, they don't have laboratory confirmation of COVID-19.

Despite repeated assurances from the government on medical oxygen, vaccines and hospital beds, Covid patients and their families have got little relief as cases continue to soar.

A COVID care centre equipped with 500 oxygen beds will be restarted in Delhi amid a surge in coronavirus cases, and border guarding force ITBP has been again entrusted to run it, officials said on Thursday.

Delhi reported 306 deaths due to COVID-19 today in the biggest ever fatalities during a 24-hour period. The national capital recorded over 26,000 cases during the same period. With this, the positivity rate has increased to 36.24 per cent.

Stories of people helping out others against all odds continue to come from the national capital and elsewhere across the country amid the deadly second wave of COVID-19.

Over 2,500 distress calls from COVID-19 patients were dispatched to ambulances in the national capital daily for the last one week, numbers compiled by the Delhi government show, highlighting the severity of the ongoing wave of the pandemic.

Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 18.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning. This is four degrees below the normal temperature at this time of the year, the India Meteorological Department said.

District officials in southwest Delhi raided an oxygen refilling centre and recovered 70 cylinders on Wednesday.

As the ferocious second wave of coronavirus afflicts India, grieving families of patients gasp for a bed and breath at hospitals.

Farmers in large numbers have started coming towards Delhi after the harvesting season to strengthen the protest against the centre's new farm laws, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha said today.

The Delhi Police today provided a green corridor to facilitate movement of a truck carrying oxygen containers from Singhu border to a private hospital in Rohini which was running out of supply, officials said.

BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has informed people of his parliamentary constituency East Delhi that they can get antiviral drug 'Fabiflu' from his office for free.

A 35-year-old man was arrested with 1,502 kg marijuana in Delhi, the police said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh is facing oxygen shortage because of Delhi government's move to take extra oxygen from supplier INOX, sources in Uttar Pradesh government has told NDTV.

A rapid rise in COVID-19 cases and exceeding requests for either RT-PCR or antigen tests has abruptly forced a majority of private laboratories to stop collecting swab samples even from testing centres for at least two days.

A fire broke out at a furniture market in west Delhi's Kirti Nagar area on Wednesday morning, officials said.

After an acute oxygen shortage in Delhi hospitals was flagged in court and through appeals by politicians, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, some of the city's biggest medical facilities received a late night refill.

The number of containment zones in the national capital has jumped to 13,259 from 2,183 on April 1, according to official data released by the Delhi government as the city grapples to rein in the drastic surge in COVID cases.

Hundreds of migrant workers are headed back to their homes after a six-day lockdown was declared in Delhi due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases. Saurabh Shukla reports.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday laid down guidelines to be followed by courts while dealing with cases related to removal of objectionable content from the internet to ensure access to such offensive material is restricted at the earliest

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Tuesday revised its operational plan for the six-day lockdown period and increased the frequency of metro trains from 30 minutes to 15 minutes during the peak hours.

Amid the prevailing six-day lockdown in the national capital, imposed after a spike in COVID-19 cases, DCP South East, Delhi Police, Rajendra Prasad Meena stated that they have "witnessed a discipline amongst the public".

Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain flagged a huge oxygen shortage at another key hospital in the city this evening. Guru Teg Bahadur hospital has supplies for only four hours, the minister said. Pointing out that the hospital has more than 500 Covi

Two of Delhi's top hospitals -- Max Hospital and Ganga Ram -- have reported that their oxygen supplies will last for just a few hours. The crunch comes as Delhi struggles to cope with an unprecedented daily surge that reached 32,000 last evening.

The full horror of an oxygen shortage in Delhi's Covid spiral sank in before the High Court today when NDTV's reports on top hospitals running out of oxygen were flagged by one of the judges.