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The national capital recorded 311 Covid-19 deaths in a day, and 20,960 cases with a positivity rate of 26.37 per cent, according to the health bulletin issued by the Delhi health department on Wednesday afternoon.

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The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the Centre to show cause as to why contempt not be initiated against it for failing to comply with order on supply of oxygen to Delhi for treating Covid-19 patients. “You can put your head in sand like an ostrich, we will not,” the high court to the central government.

The Army had to call in emergency resources, some from as far away as Haridwar, to cater to the shortages after the allotment was reduced by a third, impacting over 450 patients on oxygen support, with a waiting list of hundreds more.

The train from Hapa will reach Delhi Cantt. at about 3 am on Wednesday, and the one from Mundra will reach Tughlakabad at 2 am, officials said.

Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav declined the plea of Singh, who is in jail in a case related to alleged misappropriation of funds at Religare Finvest Limited (RFL). He approached the court praying to be released on an interim bail for two months, on the ground he was down with high fever from April 25 with severe body ache.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces that all autorickshaw and taxi drivers in Delhi will be given Rs 5000 each by Delhi govt. All ration card holders in Delhi, around 72 lakhs in number, will be given free ration for the next 2 months, he added.

In September last year, Health Minister Satyendar Jain had said the policy had proved to be a "game-changer" in taming the surge in June, a strategy the government continues to pursue.

In view of Delhi's growing caseload, the Centre recently raised the city's daily oxygen quota from 378 MT to 480 MT, then to 490 MT and finally, to 590 MT. However, the Delhi government that had earlier demanded 700 MT of oxygen per day also increased its demand to 976 MT.

Vaccination drive for people between 18-45 years in Delhi began from today. Delhiites arrived at the vaccination centre in Mori Gate area to get their first dose of vaccine. Registrations for the vaccination are being done on CoWIN app. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced large scale vaccination of citizens between 18-45 years age bracket to begin from May 03.

On issues related to availability of oxygen, the cabinet secretary expressed his anguish at recent instances where people had suffered due to lack of adequate and timely availability of oxygen, an official statement said.

Most of the relief flights were supported by Air Force aircraft, which included IL76, C-130, C-5, C-17. These flights brought in over 5,500 oxygen concentrators, approximately 3,200 oxygen cylinders, over 9,28,000 masks, 1,36,000 Remdesivir injections, which are required in view of huge surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, the airport company said.

Most of the relief flights were supported by Air Force aircraft, which included IL76, C-130, C-5, C-17. These flights brought in over 5,500 oxygen concentrators, approximately 3,200 oxygen cylinders, over 9,28,000 masks, 1,36,000 Remdesivir injections, which are required in view of huge surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, the airport company said.

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking issuance of direction to the Government of India to frame guidelines in a time-bound manner for the airing of news of sensitive nature such as reporting of mass-scale deaths and sufferings by the people by broadcasters/TV channels and restraining them from spreading negativity, sense of insecurity towards life, alarm, injury, harm, suffering, and damage.

A court in Delhi has called the 2020 Delhi riots the 'reminiscent of carnage during the days of partition', while rejecting the anticipatory bail petition of a man accused of attacking a boy during the widespread violence, merely because he belonged to a different community.

Dismissing the PIL seeking restrictions on news channels Delhi HC states 'Informing public about the number of deaths due to Covid is not negative news'.

Delhi government has sought the help from different sources including the Indian Army for transportation of medical oxygen in the national capital, said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on May 03.

Delhi government has an SOS system where hospitals send urgent messages when they run out of oxygen. Hospitals complain this system barely gives them supplies like 3-4 cylinders or half a tank full at one go.

The group that includes Vaibhav Kakkar of L&L partners and Karan Chandhiok of Chandhiok and Mahajan has roped in former Natco Pharma executive CV Narayan Rao to help with technical assistance for the project. The team is looking to raise Rs. 2 crore for setting up the makeshift field hospital and for sourcing 100 oxygen concentrators which they estimate could help save 90,000 lives.

Currently, Delhiites aged 45+ are being vaccinated at hospitals listed on CoWIN. For the newly-eligible 18-44 group, these schools will serve as the only vax centres for now, the govt said.

Football Delhi mourned the death of Bose and offered condolences to his family, saying he was one of the strongest pillars of strength in city football.

"Much water has gone above head. Now we mean business. Enough is enough," a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli asserted while declining the Centre's request to defer the order till Monday or for half-an-hour.

India is struggling with the second wave of the coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of RT-PCR tests, medical oxygen and beds.

The national capital has been under lockdown since April 19, considering the continual surge and overflowing number of covid cases, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal extends the lockdown for another week. Watch

India is struggling with the second wave of the coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of RT-PCR tests, medical oxygen and beds.