Published on: Saturday, April 24, 2021
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NEW DELHI: Hospitals in India launched desperate appeals for oxygen on Friday as the nation’s Covid crisis plummeted to horrifying new depths, while Japan readied to declare a state of emergency for Tokyo just three months before it hosts the Olympics.
Covid-19 surges are placing a major strain on healthcare systems across the world, with no end in sight to a pandemic that has killed more than three million people.
Covid 19 coronavirus: India hospitals turn away patients as oxygen shortage worsens
23 Apr, 2021 09:24 PM
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One of India s largest healthcare providers was forced to halt hospital admissions in Delhi on Friday (local time) over oxygen shortages, as evidence grows the country s death toll is significantly higher than reported.
Twenty-five Covid-19 patients at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital died over 24 hours and the lives of 60 more hang in balance, officials said on Friday as the scramble for oxygen got more frantic in hospitals across Delhi.
Sources said “low pressure oxygen” was the likely cause of the deaths in Ganga Ram, one of the city’s biggest and most high-profile hospitals, where healthcare staff were reduced to manually ventilating patients in the intensive-care unit and emergency department.
The hospital announced the deaths shortly after 8am on Friday.
An oxygen tanker reached Ganga Ram at 9.20am with supply enough to last about five hours depending on consumption, a hospital official said.
India hospitals overwhelmed by virus as Japan declares emergency
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NEW DELHI, April 24, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Hospitals in India launched desperate appeals for oxygen on Friday as the nation’s Covid crisis spiraled, while Japan issued a state of emergency in some areas just three months before the Olympics are due to open.
Covid-19 surges are placing a major strain on healthcare systems across the world, with no end in sight to a pandemic that has killed more than three million people.
With governments rushing to accelerate vaccine campaigns, good news emerged Friday when US regulators approved the re-start of Johnson & Johnson vaccinations halted over blood clotting concerns and the EU said it would have enough jabs by the end of July to inoculate 70 percent of adults.
Indian hospitals hit hard by COVID-19 as Japan declares emergency
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Saturday Apr 24, 2021
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) waits to get admitted outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, amidst the spread of the disease in New Delhi, India, April 23, 2021. Photo: Reuters
COVID-19 surges are placing a major strain on healthcare systems across the world, with no end in sight to a pandemic that has killed over 3m.
Many countries are seeing fresh waves of the virus despite vaccine programmes gaining ground.
Countries are now looking to vaccines as the road out of the pandemic, as populations tire of start-stop virus restrictions.