Bengaluru ends its worst month with the highest covid score of 26,756
Bengaluru ends its worst month with the highest covid score of 26,756
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / May 1, 2021, 06:00 IST#2021-05-01T06:00:00+05:30
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Bengaluru recorded its highest covid score in a day (26,756 cases on Friday). Surprisingly, April has seen the maximum number of
covid cases in a month 3,19,007, since the first covid case was detected in the City on March 8, 2020. As April 2021 comes to an end, a whopping 42.15 per cent of the total covid cases were added in this month. Bengaluru’s
total covid caseload is 7,56,740.
In Bengaluru, 18 cases are reported every minute and 1,115 cases every hour! A comparison of various monthly scores shows that there were 5,435 cases in Bengaluru till June 2020 (first 114 days). July saw a rise with 52,406 cases, August had 75,514, September 1,03,758, October 1,00,958, November 32,101, December 18,551, January 10,311, February 6,813 and March 2021 31,886 ca
This time, it is personnel
This time, it is personnel
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 28, 2021, 06:00 IST
Hospitals are fighting covid-19 with 40% less staff and are looking for volunteers to defeat the virus
It’s not just ordinary people who are facing a shortage of
beds, medicines, oxygen, drugs, ventilators, plasma . Hospitals too are facing a shortage - of manpower. So bad is the shortage - about 40 per cent - that hospitals are now sending an SOS to the State Government seeking the support of volunteers.
Dr Prasanna H M, the president of the
Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA) said, “Many doctors are falling sick despite taking the vaccination and due to covid fatigue. Hence, we are working with only 50 to 60 per cent of the staff. If this situation continues, then absenteeism may increase and the health infrastructure will crumble. The only option is to use volunteers. I want the government to take the lead in calling volunteers for
India removes import duty on remdesivir until October
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious health crisis as patients are faced with an acute shortage of oxygen beds, ICU and Remdesivir drug. Amidst such a crisis, shocking incidents of fake Remdesivir drugs, trade of the anti-viral drug in the black market for exorbitant prices have come to the fore. Another such incident of Remdesivir black marketing was busted in Bengaluru.
A private hospital in South Bengaluru, ACE Suhas name popped up in the Remdesivir black marketing. A certain fraction of local media and local police have blatantly named the hospital of the wrongdoing when investigations have revealed that one of the hospital employees and a visiting consultant acted unilaterally in the illicit act. The hospital has made its stand clear and even welcomed a thorough probe into the matter, but urged against jumping to early conclusions based on mere suspicions.
Scared of COVID-19 spread, fewer patients visiting Bengaluru hospitals; doctors allay fears
Karnataka’s daily caseload has breached the 10,000-mark, with Bengaluru Urban clocking the highest number of cases.
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A health worker administers a Covid vaccine to a woman at KC General Hospital in Bengaluru on Sunday. (Photo | Shriram BN/EPS)
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BENGALURU: Last year, when Covid cases had peaked, there was a considerable drop in the number of outpatients and elective surgery footfalls in hospitals. Come 2021, a similar trend is apparent.
With the second wave setting in, a few hospitals are seeing footfalls dipping to the tune of 60-70 per cent.
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