IT company Tech Mahindra has collaborated with Fortis to convert its office cafeteria into a Covid care facility, a model that other companies in Noida’s Special Economic Zone are looking to replicate at a time when an acute shortage of beds is denying treatment to many Covid patients.e
A total of 2,839 persons have registered on the new government portal, which was launched a week ago, for hospitalisation. Of them, 1,649 have a Gurugram address on Aadhaar cards, which the government has made a condition for admission.
A 33-year-old woman died outside the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) on Thursday while her friend and landlord kept looking for a bed to admit her. She had Covid-like symptoms but had not got herself tested.
Delhi recorded 375 Covid-19 deaths on Friday, taking the total toll due to the disease in the national capital to 16,147, the second highest in the country after Maharashtra where 68,183 people have succumbed to the infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
“The state has failed in its fundamental obligation to protect the basic fundamental right, that is, right to life under Article 21,” said an anguished Delhi high court, which was informed on Friday about the passing away of a man, on whose behalf an ICU bed was being sought before it for the past few days.
The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Friday that though adequate stock of oxygen was available to meet the demand caused by a resurgent Covid-19 pandemic in the country, Delhi was facing a scarcity as the AAP government was unable to lift its allocated share owing to transportation issues.
At least three top private hospital chains in Delhi-NCR — Max, Fortis and Apollo — have said they will start vaccination against Covid-19 for those aged 18 years and above from Saturday.
The third phase of Covid-19 vaccination drive, which will allow people in the 18-44 age group to get inoculated, is slated to begin on Saturday.
The daily toll of coronavirus in Delhi touched 395 on Thursday, the highest till date. It means 16 people died in the city in every one hour a day before.
The Covid-19 pandemic hit an alarming new high in the city on Thursday when it recorded more than 5,000 new cases in a day for the first time. At 5,042, Gurugramadded almost 1,000 more cases than Mumbai, which registered 4,174 new infections on Thursday.
The high court on Thursday directed Delhi Police not to seize Covid-19 resources, including oxygen cylinders and essential medicines, from patients and their attendants because they were procuring the items out of “desperation and need”.
The home ministry on Thursday bluntly reminded the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi that it remains fully accountable and in charge of health and other departments, which as per the Constitution lie in the domain of the state government, and that the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021, in no way changes the arrangement stipulated by the statute.
Daily testing for Covid-19 in Delhi has reduced by nearly 27% over the past two weeks. This, even as the positivity rate is around 32%, meaning every third person getting tested in the city is turning positive.
Innumerable Delhiites in the 18-45 year age group complained of massive technical glitches while registering for Covid-19 vaccination on the government’s Co-Win portal and the Aarogya Setu mobile application.
The Government of NCT of Delhi (Amendment) Act, notified by the Centre on Tuesday, significantly changes the functioning of the government in Delhi that’s reeling under a Covid apocalypse and mounting deaths.
“How many states are facing the kind of (oxygen) shortage Delhi is facing? People will keep dying and you will not do anything?” This is how an anguished Delhi high court bench questioned the Centre on Wednesday, observing that Delhi hadn’t received its allocated quantity of medical oxygen for a single day.
Ten days ago, Naresh (name changed) tested positive for Covid-19.
