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Tech-savvy game vaccine queues using CoWIN APIs 3 hours ago The government may have officially opened up the COVID19 vaccination program to people in the 18-45 age group, but that doesn’t mean everyone can get a vaccine. Very few appointment slots have been opened for this age group; states such as Telangana are yet to even officially begin vaccinations for this group. This scarcity has led multiple developers to macgyver piecemeal solutions in the form of apps, websites and scripts to help the tech-savvy grab all slots minutes after they are opened. All these third-party services levera...

Hospitals don't have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didn't have to be this way.

Originally published on May 5, 2021 2:59 pm MUMBAI, India — Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen cylinder — even an empty one. Her mother was one of 140 COVID-19 patients in Saroj Hospital, one of the best-equipped hospitals in India's capital, New Delhi. She was on a ventilator in intensive care. Then the hospital told Gupta and other families that its oxygen supply had run out. So they had to go out and find oxygen cylinders to bring to the hospital to keep their loved ones alive. "We are not getting full cylinders, so we are trying to find empty cylind...

Disclose rationale behind allocation of vaccines, drugs and oxygen to the States, HC tells Centre Updated: Updated: Court says such a disclosure might avoid complaints of discrimination Share Article Court says such a disclosure might avoid complaints of discrimination The Madras High Court on Wednesday advised the Centre to disclose the basis on which it had been allocating COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, oxygen and the like to various States and Union Territories fighting the raging second wave of the pandemic. The court felt that the States might stop complaining of discrimination in allotment...

Ministries fumble as questions raised on fate of oxygen, foreign aid rushed to Covid-hit India Ministries fumble as questions raised on fate of oxygen, foreign aid rushed to Covid-hit India Questions are being raised in the US as well as in India on the distribution of the foreign aid that is being sent to India over the past weeks to help the country's battle against Covid-19. advertisement UPDATED: May 4, 2021 10:41 IST Medical supplies being loaded on a cargo plane in France to be flown to India. (AP Photo) One ministry knows not what the other is doing. Amid all the foreign aid that has c...