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Several private hospitals that have resumed vaccination after weeks are seeing a sharp rise in the number of prospective recipients turning up for the shot

Hospitals said they were charging extra to cover cost of vehicles, doctors and nurses being deployed and the infrastructure to maintain the cold chain

Among the patients who died since the outbreak till Thursday, 72.6 per cent had comorbidities, which means 27.4 per cent of the victims had no comorbidities

The flight operations were suspended from 8am till 6.30pm on Wednesday as a precautionary measure against the storm

Several private hospitals have finalised deals for Covid vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Russian-made Sputnik V - and the consignments are expected to start coming from next week, officials of the healthcare units said on Tuesday. Only a handful of private hospitals are now administering Covid vaccines. Tens of thousands of vaccine recipients are waiting for other healthcare units to receive supplies and resume the vaccination drive. The drive has remained suspended at most private vaccination centres since May 1 because of lack of supplies. The private centres now have to directly procure...