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India has never been prepared for a public health emergency of the scale of Covid-19. No country has. But the government’s dislocated priorities have left the nation particularly vulnerable. It is now running short of basic infrastructure including oxygen tanks, ventilators, antiviral medication and hospital beds, with hundreds of thousands of new infections being recorded every day. On Thursday, the country added 314,835 cases, the highest daily tally in the world since the pandemic began. Public health spending was dismally low to begin with, at just close to 1% of India’s gross domes...

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Updated: Letter to PM calls for uniform, free COVID immunisation for all amid crisis Share Article AAA West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election rally in Asansol district on April 22, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI Letter to PM calls for uniform, free COVID immunisation for all amid crisis West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the vaccine policy of the Centre is “highly discriminatory and anti-people”. “I am afraid, this policy is highly discriminatory and anti-people. Moreover, it appears that the...

A view of Supreme Court of India in New Delhi. File   | Photo Credit: S. Subramanium The bench, also comprising justices L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat, would take up the plea for hearing on Friday. A lawyers’ body Thursday moved the Supreme Court, which has taken suo motu cognisance of prevailing grim pandemic situation in the country, urging it to allow various high courts to deal with the COVID-19 related issues at local level saying they “appear to be best suited to deal with the situation”. The top court also hinted that it would deal with the method and manner of COVID-19 ...

Telangana Health Minister presses alarm bell, calls out issues with Remdesivir and oxygen allocation Updated: Updated: April 22, 2021 16:22 IST Remdesivir is manufactured by at least two companies in and around Hyderabad. Till Wednesday, the State was procuring it directly. Share Article Telangana Minister for Health Medical and Family Welfare Eatala Rajendar. File   | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna Remdesivir is manufactured by at least two companies in and around Hyderabad. Till Wednesday, the State was procuring it directly. Though Telangana has placed order for over 4 lakh vials of Rem...