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With barely any domestic production capacity, India is largely reliant on China-made concentrators. While there is a rush to import, the costs are high and hurdles include hazy regulations.
May 5, 2021 In the past five days, 25 flights loaded with 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 relief supplies have landed in India’s capital from around the world. The supplies include 5,500 oxygen concentrators, 3,200 oxygen cylinders and 1,36,000 remdesivir injections, said a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Limited. The emergency aid could save lives. But it seems not to have reached even those who are gasping for oxygen a few kilometers away. “As far as I know, we have not received anything so far,” said Dr Nutan Mundeja, director general of health services, Delhi govern...
April 29, 2021 On the evening of April 23, Dhanraj Singh, a 40-year blind man, arrived at the Sikanderpur community health centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, complaining of breathlessness. Singh, a resident of the nearby Bansi Bazar village, was running a temperature too. According to the doctor who attended to him, Singh collapsed within “hardly five-seven minutes”. The body was handed over to the family. In any case, the doctor said he would not have been able to help–the centre has no oxygen supplies, not even for emergencies. Singh looked like a “suspected Covid ...
April 23, 2021 The Delhi high court on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by Facebook and WhatsApp against a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order to investigate the messaging platform’s new privacy policy, Bar and Bench reported. On March 24, CCI had directed its investigation arm, the director general, to complete the inquiry within 60 days after prima facie finding that the Facebook-owned company has violated competition law provisions through its “exploitative and exclusionary conduct” under the garb of the policy update. However, both WhatsApp and Facebook in their peti...
April 16, 2021 Daily Covid-19 cases in India crossed the two-lakh mark on April 14, with an official death toll of over 1,000. This was the highest-ever rise in the country’s caseload since January 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic began. India now has 1,40,74,564 Covid-19 cases and has seen 1,73,123 deaths, and is the second-worst affected country in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. Despite a continuous surge in the number of cases, public gatherings like the Kumbh in Haridwar and election rallies in West Bengal have not been cancelled. Shortly after union health minist...