Covid India crisis: Dubai-born pregnant doctor kept working till the end
SM Ayaz Zakir and Sahim Salim/Dubai Filed on April 29, 2021 | Last updated on April 29, 2021 at 02.42 pm
Dr Maha Basheer. Photo - Supplied
Doctors could not save her or the baby.
A 25-year-old pregnant doctor, who was born and raised in Dubai, died following Covid-19 complications in India.
When many healthcare professionals preferred to stay at home as Covid cases and deaths surged in India, the six months pregnant Dr Maha Basheer continued to serve and help fight the pandemic.
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Dr Maha, who hailed from the south Indian state of Kerala, was five months pregnant when she contracted the virus.
India fights Covid: Masks on statues to spread awareness
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Officials in Andhra Pradesh launched a novel drive: putting masks on statues of freedom fighters.
Worried about the failure of many citizens to wear masks despite Covid-19 ravaging the region, officials in East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh launched a novel drive: putting masks on statues of freedom fighters.
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District collector D. Muralidhar Reddy, who arranged for masks to be tied on the statues of famous leaders in public places, also urged other officials to do likewise in their areas across the district.
“It is strange that people are reluctant to wear masks even as the district is reporting over a thousand Covid cases every day for the past few days,” Reddy told the media after tying a mask to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the collectorate. “Through this initiative, we hope people understand the significance of taking precautionary measures to prevent the spread of th
India: Court directs shifting of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan to Delhi govt hospital
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Kappan’s wife had pleaded with the chief justice, seeking his help.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to shift Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan to a government hospital in Delhi for treatment, instead of letting him continue in a Mathura jail.
Kappan’s wife had pleaded with the chief justice, seeking his help. She had written to him, noting that her husband had been chained like an animal to a cot of a medical college hospital in Mathura. He was extremely critical and could not eat nor go to the toilet for the past four days, she said.