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2 Delhi civic bodies give nod to use cow dung for cremation as Covid deaths surge - ThePrint

As the country grapples with second Covid wave, Delhi is reporting a grievous shortage of medical oxygen, a life-saving resource for patients.

The Delhi government has turned many government schools into vaccination booths to ease the load of those waiting for their doses.

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba stressed the need to make all relevant information on Covid beds and facilities available to the public and create a helpline for the same.

Congress is leading on one seat, after having won 44 of 92 in 2016 polls. Things are worse than Bengal leaders expected, but they say the party had it coming.

For well over a week, the same old story has been playing out in the national capital — of deaths, few hospital beds and a city gasping for breath.

Delhi Police command centre has been ‘turned into a war room’, which handles all Covid distress calls & helps out people in need. PCR vans are also operating round-the-clock.

An official said 40 oxygen cylinders are being handed over to the Cabinet Secretariat officials for usage at Sardar Patel Covid care centre in Delhi.

With the song 'Hum honge kamyab ek din' playing in the background, short video by Neoma Gupta salutes all the doctors, nurses and healthcare workers fighting the virus every day.

Modi govt met 93% of UP govt?s oxygen demand. But Delhi got only 54% of what it asked for - ThePrint

Twenty-one-year-old Ankur Singh came forward to help a Delhi journalist cremate his Covid-positive mother when crematorium staff called it a day. This wasn’t the first time.

Citing Delhi govt data, Delhi HC noted NCR needed 700 MTs of oxygen but was supplied 480-490 MTs while Maharashtra and MP received oxygen above the requested amount.

Waseem Gases, an AC repair shop in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, has been drawing a steady stream of people looking for oxygen, as hospitals run out of medical oxygen

Two benches of the Delhi High Court took note of delays in the issuance of no-objection certificates for Covid patients by insurance companies that are needed for discharge.

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AAP govt was slammed in a review chaired by P.K. Mishra, principal secretary to PM, which was attended by Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev and other officials of both govts.

CM Kejriwal had directed officials to ensure real-time bed availability is reflected on website. Hospitals cite volume of patients, shortage of oxygen, manpower, for discrepancy.

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Level two facilities will be set up in the 100 rooms that will have assured oxygen beds. The facilities will be medically served by Primus Hospital.

A woman lost her husband as he lay unattended & a 38-year-old man was declared brought dead after several hospitals turned him down — scenes outside GTB, LNJP hospitals were scary.

Delhi Police has so far recovered 81 remdevisir injections and has also tracked down WhatsApp groups of inter-state gangs allegedly running the black marketing racket.

The teachers have been allocated shifts & will be required to coordinate between families of the dead, hospital staff & hearse van drivers, for proper and timely removal of bodies

WTO members US, UK, EU, Japan, Australia, Canada & Switzerland are offering stiff resistance to India and South Africa’s proposal to waive intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines.

The meeting via video conferencing comes amid a huge surge in Covid cases, which have now clocked a daily total of over 3 lakh in the country.