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A woman mourns the death of a family member due to the Covid-19 disease outside the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital.
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A woman mourns the death of a family member due to the Covid-19 disease outside the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital.
Image: SIPA USA/PA Images
INDIA HAS REPORTED a record 4,529 coronavirus deaths in a single day even as the number of new cases in its devastating new wave fell.
The daily pandemic death toll has been rising in recent days as cases spread into rural districts with poor health facilities.
Al Jazeera English correspondent Elizabeth Puranam was filmed getting her Covid-19 vaccination live on air.
Kiwi reporter Elizabeth Puranam lives and works in New Delhi as the second wave of India s Covid-19 crisis hits hard and close to home.
OPINION: I was on my way to report from a makeshift Covid-19 care centre that was being built in central New Delhi when I got the dreaded message from my fiancé Alex: “Nisheeth’s father’s oxygen level is super low. 58. I’m trying to get our neighbour Anhsul’s contact for oxygen.” I was used to seeing messages on Twitter from people looking for hospital beds and oxygen for their sick relatives, but not from anyone I knew.
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Covid Care Centre being prepared with beds and oxygen support, amid the ongoing second wave of coronavirus pandemic, at Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in New Delhi
The Guru Tegh Bahadur COVID Care Centre at the Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in central Delhi is starting operations from Monday afternoon with 300 beds.
Manjinder Singh Sirsa, president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, said 100 more beds will become available on Tuesday. The COVID care center is being managed by 50 doctors from the Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. They will be supported by a team of 150 nurses and ward boys, he said.