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New Guidelines for Accelerating Vaccinations by Colleen Fleiss on  April 26, 2021 at 11:06 PM The Centre has shared new guidelines with the States and Union Territories (UTs) for effective implementation of the new vaccination strategy from May 1. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Chairman, Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management to combat COVID-19, Dr R S Sharma, chaired a meeting to guide the States and UTs on the implementation of the new vaccination strategy. They also reviewed the States and UTs' plans to strengthen the existing hospital and clinical...

Ramp up Oxygen... Ramp up Oxygen Provisions Under Plan B, Get Ready for 6 Lakh COVID Cases a Day: Empowered Group-1 under Dr Paul The report had alerted the government about the impending surge in COVID cases and the need for ICU beds in September last year   |  26 April 2021 8:43 AM GMT New Delhi: An Empowered Group of Officers under Niti Aayog Member for Health, Dr V K Paul have recommended "extraordinary measures to ramp up oxygen provision" under a 'Plan B' to meet a surge of 6 lakh new COVID cases a day. The report submitted about 10 days back (just days before the country s...

Ahead of May 1, Centre issues guidelines to states, UTs for phase 3 of vaccination Ahead of May 1, Centre issues guidelines to states, UTs for phase 3 of vaccination The New Vaccination Strategy will enable all adults of age 18 and above to be eligible for vaccination. It will also allow the vaccine doses to be sold through the market. While this will allow all adults to be vaccinated, people of age 45 and above will remain a priority and the younger ones will only receive vaccines once they are available for private sales. In India,...

The Congress on Saturday said the oxygen shortage that is killing Covid patients is the result of the Narendra Modi government’s failure to prepare despite early warnings. “India has 1.65 crore Covid cases and over 2,500 people are dying daily. Unfortunately, this is not only because of the pandemic; the government’s attitude, arrogance and failures are part of the causes for this tragedy,” he said. Maken pointed to the report of the parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare, submitted on November 21 and tabled in the Rajya Sabha in February. “In the 190-page rep...

Many hospitals in Delhi are facing acute oxygen crisis due to shortage of supply which has caused a face-off between the AAP government and Centre (Photo for representative purpose only) NEW DELHI: Delhi government on Saturday said that the Delhi high court pulled up Centre and asked it to immediately examine re-allocating Delhi quota of oxygen from nearby plants. Many hospitals in Delhi are facing acute oxygen crisis due to shortage of supply which has caused a face-off between the AAP government and Centre. The Delhi HC on Saturday heard a hospital's petition over shortage of oxygen for cr...