Rumita Patel
The bodies piling up in crematoria and cemeteries across India are raising concerns that the death toll from a fierce new wave of Covid-19 may be much higher than official records, downplaying the scale of a resurgence that is overwhelming the country’s medical system. Several cities in the South Asian nation have reported shocking details…
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NEW DELHI: Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office on Friday expressed “regret” for sharing the live broadcast of his appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the oxygen shortage in the national capital. Kejriwal faced criticism when he shared the live broadcast of his speech during the prime minister’s meeting with the top ministers of…
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BENGALURU: In what has the potential to improve the diagnosis of abnormalities such as stenosis, researchers from the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) and their collaborators have demonstrated a method to quantify changes in airflow in the airways. Stenosis is a condition in which the effective (inner) lumen area is reduced in the tracheal and…
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MUMBAI: A popular misquote attributed to Mark Twain says: Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. On Friday, it was the turn of former Lok Sabha spokesperson Sumitra Mahajan (78) to announce that she is very much alive. His ‘clarification’ came after Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and some media outlets announced Mahajan’s disappearance on…
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NEW DELHI: India has administered more than 31 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the past 24 hours, the union health ministry said on Friday. According to data from the Ministry of Health, 13,54,78,420 doses of vaccines have been administered through 19,38,184 sessions, according to the interim report until 7 am today. In addition, eight…
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NEW DELHI: Amid the rise in Covid-19 cases across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a meeting with the chief ministers of high-burden states on the prevailing Covid-19 situation there. The meeting took place virtually. Union Minister of the Interior Amit Shah, Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Health…
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NEW DELHI: With the Home Office designating the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Thursday as the nodal force to reactivate the Sardar Patel Covid Care Center in Chhatarpur with 500 oxygenated beds, the ITBP expects to deploy around 500 people, including official doctors and paramedical personnel, so that the facility is up and running in…
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NEW DELHI: With a single-day record rise of 3,32,730 new coronavirus infections, India’s total Covid-19 case count rose to 1,62,63,695, while active cases crossed the 24 mark lakh, according to the Union Ministry of Health. data updated on Friday. When registering a constant increase, active cases increased to 24,28,616, which represents 14.93% of all infections….
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NEW DELHI: Twenty-five “sicker” Covid-19 patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, in the past 24 hours, and the lives of another 60 of those patients are at risk, authorities said Friday amid from a severe oxygen crisis. deploying in the national capital. According to one source, “low pressure oxygen” could be the…
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BRUSSELS: The Covid-19 variant contributing to an increase in coronavirus cases in India has been detected in Belgium in a group of Indians students which arrived from Paris, Belgian authorities said Thursday. Twenty nursing students, who arrived in Belgium in mid-April after traveling from the French capital’s Charles de Gaulle airport, tested positive for the…
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