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Representative image NEW DELHI: For the ninth day in a row, India recorded over 3 lakh cases, inching closer to the 4 lakh mark with 3,86,693 cases on Thursday. The country reported 3,502 deaths, amid widespread reports of underreporting of fatalities with a gross mismatch of reported deaths and actual cremations across the country. Cases have been higher than 3 lakh for 9 days in a row now. The country’s positivity rate is at 21.2% (based on smoothed 7 day rolling average of cases and tests). This means that 21 out of 100 people who are being tested are turning positive. Such a high posit...

This time, it is personnel This time, it is personnel BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 28, 2021, 06:00 IST Hospitals are fighting covid-19 with 40% less staff and are looking for volunteers to defeat the virus It’s not just ordinary people who are facing a shortage of beds, medicines, oxygen, drugs, ventilators, plasma ... Hospitals too are facing a shortage - of manpower. So bad is the shortage - about 40 per cent - that hospitals are now sending an SOS to the State Government seeking the support of volunteers. Dr Prasanna H M, the president of the Private Hospitals and Nursin...

A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a Covid-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad on April 26. — Reuters Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi on April 24. — AP Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the Covid-19 death toll towards 200,000. A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived...

Source: Highlights A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi. France is also sending oxygen generators that can provide year-long oxygen for 250 beds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all citizens to get vaccinated and exercise caution amid the "storm" of infections. New Delhi: Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday (April 27) as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the COVID-19 death toll towards 200,000. A shipment ...

Published Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:21AM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:26AM EDT NEW DELHI, April 27 (Reuters) -- Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters partner ANI, while France is sending oxygen generators able to provide 250 patients with a year's worth of the gas, its emb...