Over 20% of total vaccine doses given in Bengaluru
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Experts emphasise need to bridge digital divide and microplan to ensure no area is deprived of benefits of vaccination
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People wait their turn for vaccination at K.C. General hospital in Bengaluru on Friday. | Photo Credit:
SUDHAKARA JAIN
Experts emphasise need to bridge digital divide and microplan to ensure no area is deprived of benefits of vaccination
Although Karnataka is one of the few States that has administered more than one crore doses of vaccine to various categories of beneficiaries so far, there is a considerable gap between urban and rural areas.
Mujib Mashal and Sameer Yasir, The New York Times
Published: 19 May 2021 12:31 PM BdST
Updated: 19 May 2021 12:31 PM BdST Health care workers help patients at a makeshift facility in Delhi on April 30, 2021. More than 1,000 doctors, and an untold number of medical personnel, have died after coronavirus infections, and many suffer an emotional toll as they make tough decisions about who gets treated. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
The shifts are long, the wards full, the demand so urgent that medical students and interns have been coaxed into filling in. Hundreds of workers have died. Family members at home have fallen ill.
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Health care workers assembling at a naval hospital in Mumbai earlier this month. Photo / Atul Loke, The New York Times
Health care workers assembling at a naval hospital in Mumbai earlier this month. Photo / Atul Loke, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Mujib Mashal and Sameer Yasir
More than 1,000 doctors, and an untold number of medical personnel, have died after coronavirus infections. Many suffer an emotional toll as they make tough decisions about who gets treated. The shifts are long, the wards full, the demand so urgent that medical students and interns have been coaxed into filling in. Hundreds of workers have died. Family members at home have fallen ill.
As bodies pile up, Karnataka struggles to reduce deaths in second wave of COVID-19
A combination of a new virus variant, state government s inadequate preparedness and people s lack of awareness on what to do when symptoms surface is being blamed by experts for high deaths.
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Family members perform the last rites of a person who succumbed to COVID-19, at an open-air crematorium on the outskirts of Bengaluru. (Photo| Ashishkrishna HP, EPS) By Express News Service
These days, when one is informed of a death of someone known, the first question one asks is Was it COVID? , as if there is consolation over a death where COVID is not the culprit.