Ranchi: Four cybercriminals arrested in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala were brought to Ranchi on transit remand on Tuesday, the Criminal Investigation Depar.
People in need and those with information or resources are sharing telephone numbers of volunteers, vendors who have oxygen cylinders or drugs, and details of which medical facility can take patients using hashtags like #COVIDSOS.
Many people are creating Twitter accounts to seek help from those in positions of power, officials manning helpline numbers said, but hundreds of millions of mainly poorer Indians do not have access to a smartphone or use social media. We ve tried every helpline provided by the government and the only reply we re getting is there are no beds available. I don t know what Twitter is and didn t think of asking for help on social media, said Yadav, holding back tears.
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Many hospitals in India are running short of oxygen cylinders used to supply ventilators for COVID-19 patients. (File photo: AFP/Manjunath Kiran)
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MUMBAI: As India s daily coronavirus cases set global records, people desperately searching for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders are finding help on social media. But for others like Ruby Yadav, who has never heard of Twitter, time and hope is running out.
Travelling by rickshaw, Yadav and her mother - who is seriously ill with COVID-19 - have been turned away by nearly a dozen public hospitals in the northern city of Lucknow this week as the country s health system crumbles.
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COVID-19: India added to UK travel red list as it records world s highest-ever daily case figure for second consecutive day Britons arriving from India must now pay to quarantine in government-approved hotels for 10 days after the country was added to the travel red list.
As of 4am, only British, Irish and third-country nationals with residence rights, including long-term visa holders, can enter the UK.
Other people are banned if they have been in India in the previous 10 days.
The change has been prompted by a worrying rise in infections, with 332,730 cases reported in
India on Friday - the world s highest-ever daily tally which it has now recorded for the second consecutive day - and concerns over a