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"We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die," said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care. The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, alon...

"We are supposed to give life. If we cannot give even oxygen, our patients will die," said Sunil Kumar Saggar, CEO of Shanti Mukand Hospital in Karkardooma, in a choked voice around 2.43pm on Thursday with his hospital left with just two hours of oxygen. He was anxious about the 110 Covid patients in their care. The crisis had started brewing at this 200-bed hospital around 3am. Out of the 110 Covid patients, 12 were on ventilator with one consuming 18 litres of oxygen per minute. Saggar, alon...

Coronavirus | Centre steps in to restore oxygen supplies to Delhi Updated: Updated: ‘24/7 control team will mediate disputes between States’ Share Article AAA A relative of a COVID-19 patient carries an oxygen cylinder for refilling in New Delhi on April 21, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI ‘24/7 control team will mediate disputes between States’ Oxygen stocks at several hospitals in the national capital dipped to alarming lows following disruption of supplies from Haryana on Wednesday. Su...

April 16, 2021 With a massive second wave of Covid-19 sweeping through India, one in five infections in the world is currently being reported from the country. How is India’s second wave different from the first? To start with, the second wave is spreading much, much faster than the first, as visible in this graphic. Our world in data India’s second Covid-19 wave is stronger than the first. Many experts believe the surge is partly fuelled by new strains of the coronavirus, including a more ...

How is India’s second wave of Covid-19 different from the first? How is India’s second wave of Covid-19 different from the first? The infections are spreading faster but whether the disease is more severe among the young is hard to say in the absence of data. 2 hours ago A patient with a breathing problem wears an oxygen mask as she lies inside an ambulance waiting in a queue to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, April 14, 2021. | Reuters/Amit Dave With...

In second year of pandemic, treating Covid-19 still in trial and error mode SECTIONS Share Synopsis Dr Manish Soneja, additional professor, department of medicine, AIIMS, who was part of the medical team that prepared the national guideline on Covid management, said the right selection of patients who could benefit from these therapies and the timing of their usage have proved to be the most important learning. Agencies Treatment for Covid involves three key components: drugs to reduce the vira...

NEW DELHI: The daily tally of Covid-19 breached all records on Tuesday with the city reporting 13,468 new cases in 24 hours. This is the third highest in the country, after Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, both of which are much bigger in area and population size than the national capital. Earlier, on Sunday and Monday, Delhi had recorded 10,774 and 11,491 new cases, respectively. The city also recorded 81 deaths due to Covid-19. It is the highest since December 3 when 82 deaths were recorded. ...

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Updated: April 10, 2021 11:18 IST Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday, April 9, 2021, said there have been no fresh COVID cases in the past seven days in 149 districts, while eight districts had reported no new cases in the past 14 days, three districts in the past 21 days and 63 districts in the past 28 days. Share Article AAA Senior citizens with the proof of documents wait for their turn for COVID-19 vaccination at a health centre in Bhubaneswar on Friday, April 9, 2021.   | Photo...

‘Those vaccinated are also getting infected, but has mild symptoms’ There have been cases of people, who have taken two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, testing positive, according to doctors. But doctors said that in such cases, people had only “mild symptoms”. According to experts, COVID-19 vaccine prevents “severe illness” and not an infection. Sumit Ray, Head of Department of Critical Care at Holy Family Hospital, said that the hospital has seen four to five such cases. “We have se...