: Saturday, April 17, 2021, 11:39 AM IST
It needed more effort than just any routine job: Dr Rajesh Dere, in charge of BKC Jumbo COVID centre
Dr Dere shares his experience of handling more than 20,000 Covid patients, the hurdles faced, the vaccination drive and the second wave of Covid which has gripped the city.
From being Head of Forensic Department at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion and being appointed as the in-charge of the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) Jumbo COVID Centre, Dr Rajesh Dere s achievements are awe-inspiring. The Jumbo COVID Centre has been in news for its success rate. The Centre has seen a recovery rate of 94% and has been receiving infinite calls from across Maharashtra for beds and vaccination drive.
Iran Covid cases hit two million in ‘meteoric’ rise, India suffers vaccine shortages as virus surges
World
April 9, 2021
TEHRAN: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran passed the two-million mark on Thursday, while the daily caseload set a new record high in what a health official warned amounted to a meteoric spike.
As the Islamic republic reached the grim milestone, some health experts called for a lockdown of the capital Tehran to contain the country’s fourth Covid-19 wave. Iran is battling the Middle East’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, and officials have blamed the latest surge on trips made during last month’s Persian New Year holidays.
India s Hardest-hit State Battles Vaccine Shortages By Ammu KANNAMPILLY
04/09/21 AT 5:51 AM
Leading hospitals in India s most coronavirus-hit state halted vaccinations Friday, citing shortages as infections across the country crossed 13 million and set a new daily record.
The nation of 1.3 billion is confronting a ferocious second wave that has triggered its fastest infection rate since the pandemic began, with nearly 132,000 cases recorded in the past 24 hours.
In financial and film hub Mumbai, 25 out of 71 private hospitals administering jabs ran out of supplies Thursday, city authorities said.
The situation at government-run inoculation centres was not much better, with a giant 1,000-bed field hospital turning away people arriving for their first dose on Friday morning.
MUMBAI: More than 700 million people across India were facing coronavirus vaccine shortages on Thursday, local media reported, as infection numbers hit yet another daily record.
Case numbers had eased in India but a second wave of the virus has since returned with a vengeance, with more than 126,000 new infections recorded in the past 24 hours, a new record.
Several regions have tightened curbs on activity while Maharashtra, the current epicentre of India’s epidemic and home to megacity Mumbai, is set to enter a lockdown at the weekend.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received his second shot on Thursday, tweeting that vaccines are “among the few ways we have to defeat the virus”. He urged others to follow his lead by getting vaccinated.