NEW DELHI: As EU announced a 2.2 million euro assistance package for India on Wednesday, government sources said the aid arriving in India were being distributed to hospitals around the country.
On Wednesday the new charge’d’affaires at the US Embassy, Dan Smith tweeted, “The US-India partnership involves all aspects of the relationship: government, business and people. This week vaccine components arrived in India from the US that will enable the manufacturing of 20 million doses of Covishield vaccine.”
Twenty oxygen concentrators from Russia have been given to Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi. One large oxygen generating plant given by Italy has been sent to the ITBP hospital in Noida.
NEW DELHI - The biggest international relief mission India has seen in recent years is being rolled out as the country reels from the impact of a second wave of Covid-19 that has put inordinate pressure on its health infrastructure and resulted in shortages of oxygen, medicines and other equipment.
Every day, flights from different countries carrying emergency relief ranging from large oxygen-generating plants to N95 masks have been landing in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.
Ships carrying liquid medical oxygen and other oxygen-related equipment are also docking in ports, emptying their cargo and going back for more rounds.
From airports and ports, oxygen and oxygen-related equipment, medicines like remdesivir and other equipment like ventilators and oximeters are being sent to different parts of the country most affected by the second Covid-19 wave.
Why you must change your toothbrush after recovering from Covid-19
Why you must change your toothbrush after recovering from Covid-19
Experts recommend that once a Covid-19 patient has recovered, they should change their toothbrush and tongue cleaner to prevent further transmission of the disease.
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Experts say toothbrush of an infected person can harbour the virus and it is best that it s discarded after recovery. (Photo: Getty Images)
Coronavirus infections are spreading in India at an alarming rate, and it is now well evidenced that a person can be re-infected after having recovered once. While vaccines have proven to be effective as a preventive measure, experts are of the view that even they can t guarantee 100 per cent protection in all situations, at all times.
Can imagine citizens’ plight: SC on O2 crisis
IANS / Updated: May 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
Asks Union government to take cue from Mumbai municipal authority in managing oxygen supplies
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Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that the judges of the top court are also based in Delhi, and they can imagine what the citizens of the capital are going through due to shortage of medical oxygen.
A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said, “We are also in Delhi. We are helpless and have been on phone.”
The bench further added, “We can imagine what citizens are going through.”
During the hearing, the top court also observed that putting officers in jail would not bring oxygen to Delhi, while it asked the Centre about the supply it has made to the capital since May 3.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 4
In a good news for the national capital, reeling under a ‘medical oxygen crisis’, the first lot of oxygen plants to be provided by the Defence Res