Time to place Bangladesh on a war footing to vaccinate all
Bangladesh has approved both the Russian Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm vaccines for emergency use against Covid-19. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh is in a precarious position given how Covid-19 has engulfed the entirety of its neighbour, India, causing unimaginable havoc on ordinary people whose helplessness we are witnessing on a daily basis. Dr Farah Husain, head of the Covid ICU unit at the Lok Nayak Hospital in Delhi, a public Covid-designated hospital that has served more than twelve thousand patients, in a CNN interview declared that what is happening in India is nothing short of an apocalypse . She also mentioned that every family in India is attacked by Covid . The aggressive double-mutant variant of the virus has been the key culprit in India. It is deadly in terms of virulence and is much more transmissible than others. Its official name is B.1.617, and the double mutant is a bit of a misnomer, as it actually
Fire Sweeps an Indian COVID Ward for Second Time in a Week, at Least 12 Patients Dead
On 4/30/21 at 11:05 PM EDT
At least 12 COVID-19 patients have died in a fire that broke out in an Indian hospital early Saturday morning, local time. A similar blaze ripped through another Indian hospital over the last week.
The most recent fire occurred at 1 a.m. on Saturday on the ground floor of Welfare Hospital, according to NDTV. The hospital is a four-story COVID-19 facility located in Bharuch, a city located in the western state of Gujarat.
At least 12 patients died due to the flames and resulting smoke. An additional 50 patients were rescued by locals and firefighters. The surviving patients were relocated to other nearby hospitals for continued care.
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An intensive care unit chief in India said the devastating coronavirus wave in the country is “nothing short of an apocalypse.” Courtesy file photo
NEW DELHI The Indian government has invoked special provisions and granted emergency financial powers to the Armed Forces to combat the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, the country s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Twitter on Friday. These powers will help Formation Commanders to establish and operate quarantine facilities/ hospitals and to undertake procurement/ repair of eqpt/ items/ material/ stores, besides provisioning of various services and works required to support the ongoing effort against COVID, he wrote.