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A man is doused by a water cannon during clashes as several hundred people gather at the Bois de la Cambre/Termore Reuters / 2021年 5月 2日 Sunday A man is doused by a water cannon during clashes as several hundred people gather at the Bois de la Cambre/Ter Kamerenbos park for an anti-lockdown party called La Boum 2 in defiance of coronavirus restrictions in Brussels, Belgium May 1, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman Close 1 / 20
Rohan Aggarwal, a resident doctor treating COVID patients, looks at a patient s X-ray scan during his 27-hour more Reuters / 2021年 5月 5日 Wednesday Rohan Aggarwal, a residen
Positivity rate on the rise in Pindi
115 cases, two deaths reported; officials blame flouting of SOPs during Eid shopping
Flouting Covid SOPs, citizens throng markets as Eidul Fitr approaches. PHOTO: ONLINE
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD:
After blatant violations of precautionary guidelines during Eid shopping, the coronavirus infection rate is once again spiraling in Rawalpindi as it was recorded around 11.10 per cent on Sunday. As many as 115 cases were reported in the district while two people succumbed to the virus in a span of 24 hours, officials informed.
Health experts are citing flouting of anti-Covid standard operating procedures (SOPs), especially since the last Ashra of Ramazan started, as the reason for this spike. District Health Authority (DHA) officials said about 154,227 people have been vaccinated so far in the district.
Army personnel seen in their vehicles parked in Rawalpindi’s Bara Market, a policeman arrests a shopkeeper for violating government directives to close shops, Saddar and Islamabad’s Jinnah Super Market give a deserted look on the first day of the nine-day lockdown. Photos by Tanveer Shahzad & INP
ISLAMABAD: Four people died of Covid-19 and 270 new cases were reported in the capital on Saturday.
Officials of the capital administration said the death toll from the virus in the capital had reached 706. Of the four casualties, two were males and two females.
They were in the age group of 60-69, 70-79 and 80-89.
India s health ministry reported 4,092 fatalities over the past 24 hours
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May 09, 2021
Rohan Aggarwal, 26, a resident doctor treating patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), tends to a patient inside the emergency room of Holy Family Hospital, during his 27-hour shift in New Delhi, India, May 1, 2021. Aggarwal says he fears what will happen if he gets infected, too, knowing that his own hospital will be unlikely to find him a bed. He is unvaccinated: He was sick in January when shots for medical professionals were being rolled out, and then by February, he began to relax. We were all under the misconception the virus had gone, he said. REUTERS
May 9, 2021 at 7:00 am
PUNE, India Mohanish Ellitam watched helplessly as his 49-year-old mother’s oxygen levels dipped dangerously and she gasped for air. “I could see her stomach rising and falling,” Ellitam said. “I was so scared.”
Watching his mother’s health deteriorate, Ellitam knew he couldn’t wait any longer. But in Shevgaon, a small town in the state of Maharashtra, health care facilities were limited and already overwhelmed with people suffering from COVID-19. He frantically called friends, family and almost everyone on his contact list with connections to the region’s hospitals. After nearly 100 calls, on April 12 Ellitam finally found a spot at Surabhi Hospital in Ahmednagar, nearly 60 kilometers from his hometown.