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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday slammed the TRS government for “not taking steps to deal with the current shortage of drugs like Remidesvir, oxygen supply to hospitals and shortage of beds to treat COVID-19 patients” in both government and private healthcare facilities.
Party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar found fault with Health Minister Eatala Rajender blaming the Centre for the “shortages” and accused the government of “incompetence” in handling the production and distribution of the essential commodities necessary during the raging second wave of the pandemic.
“Has the government conducted a single review meeting at the level of the Chief Minister to decide on how to handle the current emergency situation? There is no action against those selling drugs at high prices in the black market. The government has left public health and people to their fate just like it did during the first wave last year,” he charged.
8 UK returnees tested positive for new variant
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From the last week of December 2020, a total of eight people who returned to Telangana from the United Kingdom were detected with the new variant of SARS-COV-2.
Officials from the State Health department said as many as 5,361 UK returnees were screened and 44 were found positive for COVID-19. The screening was conducted at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad.
They were admitted to Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences. Samples collected from them were sent for genome sequencing. Eight of them were found to be infected with the new variant and were isolated for a period of at least 14 days. Medical condition of none of the eight patients was serious.
Hospitals and health centres across several cities and towns in many states and UTs could not achieve their Covid-19 vaccination targets on Tuesday thanks to continuing hesitancy among health workers in taking the shot, with a section of doctors in hospitals in Hyderabad even writing letters to their superiors, saying they would rather wait for more options before they take a jab. Reports of several cases of adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) were among the factors which caused health workers to skip the inoculations despite their names listed at the centres.
“There’re cases of adverse effects being reported for the available vaccines and one is still under trial,” read a letter by a senior resident at Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (TIMS) in Hyderabad, referring to Covaxin. “I prefer to wait until there is a better vaccine available,” the doctor said in the letter. As many as 67 health workers at TIMS refused to take the jab on Tuesday.