COVID-19: Lockdown empties Delhi streets amid deadly surge
COVID-19: Lockdown empties Delhi streets amid deadly surge
AFP / Updated: Apr 17, 2021, 13:05 IST
India into a weekend lockdown Saturday as the country confronts a fierce new
coronavirus wave, with more than 230,000 fresh daily cases and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds. Hopes that South Asia might have beaten the pandemic have been dashed with India seeing over two million new cases this month alone and Bangladesh and Pakistan also imposing shutdowns. India added another record 234,000 cases Saturday to pass 14.5 million overall and 1,341 deaths took its pandemic total to 175,649 deaths.
A father-and-son pair of doctors from Kalyan succumbed to Covid within hours of each other even as the mother is serious in a hospital in Vasai. While it’s still unclear if they were vaccinated, both had been involved in Covid care for a year.
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MUMBAI: As oxygen shortage hit a civic hospital on Friday, 46 Covid positive patients had to be shifted out of Bhagwati Hospital, Borivali to three other municipal facilities.
Civic authorities said that the hospital didn’t get its regular fill of oxygen on time and hence moved out the patients before the stocks fully ran out. Of the 45 patients, 25 were moved to the Dahisar jumbo hospital, 10 to Bal Thackeray Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari and 11 to Babasaheb Ambedkar hospital in Kandivli. Dr P Jadhav, chief superintendent of peripheral hospitals, confirmed that the patients had to be shifted on account of oxygen shortage.