Delhi Congress seeks CM Kejriwal s resignation for failing in handling Covid crisis
Delhi Congress seeks CM Kejriwal s resignation for failing in handling Covid crisis
The Delhi Congress on Saturday sought Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal s resignation for failing miserably in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Delhi Congress on Saturday sought Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal s resignation for failing miserably in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.
Delhi Congress vice president and councillor from Kasturba Nagar Abhishek Dutt criticised the Kejriwal government during a virtual press conference.
Dutt also demanded that the Delhi secretariat be converted into an isolation centre for Covid-19 patients.
Please Help : Delhi Hospitals Plead For Assistance Amid Acute Oxygen Shortage
The Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, presently running on its backup oxygen supply, urged the prime minister, Delhi chief minister and other ministers for immediate assistance . PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-24T20:08:24+05:30 Please Help : Delhi Hospitals Plead For Assistance Amid Acute Oxygen Shortage outlookindia.com 2021-04-24T20:11:00+05:30
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Amid an alarming crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country, some helpless hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility, while several others have been left with no option but to use their backup stock.
Updated 12 minutes ago A patient with a breathing problem wears an oxygen mask as she lies inside an ambulance waiting in a queue to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, April 14, 2021. | Reuters/Amit Dave
The Delhi High Court on Saturday said that if any official at the central, state or local administration is found obstructing the supply of oxygen, then “we will not spare that man”.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, meanwhile, said the Covid situation in India was “a devastating reminder of what the virus can do”.
India is in the midst of an unprecedented second wave of the pandemic. On Saturday, it reported 3,46,786 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, the third consecutive day that the country set a global record for daily infections since the pandemic began last year. With this, the country’s tally of infections rose to 1,66,10,481. As many as 2,624 deaths were registered, taking the toll to 1,89,54
AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria spoke to NDTV Saturday about the Covid pandemic (File)
New Delhi:
Areas with Covid positivity rates over 10 per cent must be locked down, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV on Saturday, as the government scrambles to contain a deadly second wave that has triggered an oxygen crisis in Delhi and left India s medical infrastructure near collapse.
Dr Guleria said the country s healthcare system was paying the price for the government s failure to anticipate the spread of infections via more aggressive variants of the virus and flagged the urgent need to break the chain of transmission and reduce the skyrocketing active caseload.