Coronavirus updates | May 5, 2021
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May 05, 2021 21:09 IST
With the fresh cases, the total tally of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 2.06 crore.
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A COVID-19 patient waits in an ambulance outside at RUHS College of Medical Sciences Hospital, amid shortage of oxygen and beds due to surge in coronavirus cases, in Jaipur.
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With the fresh cases, the total tally of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 2.06 crore.
A record 3,780 fresh COVID-19 fatalities were registered in a single day in India taking the death toll to 2,26,188, while 3,82,315 new coronavirus infections were recorded, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 28, 2021 20:59 IST
Covid patients at the LNJP hospital in Delhi
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The crematorium at Kalkaji, on April 16, had a line of plastic-covered people waiting outside. Only their eyes, burning with grief, were visible. They were members of 12 families who had lost their loved ones to Covid. “It took us two days of calling up friends, family and relatives just to get ventilator support for my mother. I also paid Rs 18,000 for Remdesivir treatment. By the time we got her to an ICU, she was in severe pulmonary distress and died within 18 hours,” says Suhasini Arora, a 21-year-old law student.
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Delhi Commonwealth Games gold medallist Krishna Poonia tests positive for COVID-19
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The 43-year-old Krishna, who became the first Indian woman to bag an individual gold in the CWG by winning the discus throw event in the 2010 Delhi Games, is now admitted at the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) hospital.
Delhi Commonwealth Games gold medallist and sitting Rajasthan MLA Krishna Poonia on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 and is undergoing treatment at a Jaipur hospital. The 43-year-old Krishna, who became the first Indian woman to bag an individual gold in the CWG by winning the discus throw event in the 2010 Delhi Games, is now admitted at the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) hospital.