Surat: Even after it tamed the virus considerably, Surat Municipal Corporation has not given up its fight against the pandemic.
Despite fresh cases and positivity rate coming down, the civic body is still aggressively continuing to test samples to break the chain of transmission. Interestingly, when the contagion was at its peak, number of samples that were being tested was not as high as it is now in the city. SMC officials said that the increasing testing is not only helping in identifying positive cases at the earliest but also keeping the positivity rate low.
While cases had been consistently rising until April 24, average daily testing was around 28,000. Later, when the peak showed a downward trend and the state government announced partial lockdown, the average daily tests in the city crossed 30,000.
Surat hospitals face acute oxygen shortage
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They threaten to stop admitting new patients if supply is not restored
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COVID-19 patients undergo treatment at a COVID Care Centre in Surat on Sunday, April 25, 2021
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They threaten to stop admitting new patients if supply is not restored Faced with acute shortage of oxygen, hospitals in Surat including government-run ones have threatened to stop admitting new patients if supply is not restored as cases soar amid several instances of patients reportedly dying without oxygen in the city and other places.
On Monday, leading doctors and representatives of Indian Medical Association (IMA) Surat urged the Chief Minister and other officials to immediately increase supply, as otherwise the lives of around 4,000 patients in various hospitals would be jeopardised.
Over 4,000 indoor patients are admitted in 400-odd private hospitals of the city. If the oxygen supply is not restored immediately, hospitals will be forced to discharge patients,” said Dr Nirmal Choraria
VADODARA/SURAT/AHMEDABAD: The spectre of crippling oxygen shortage threatening to snuff out Covid-19 affected lives is looming large in Gujarat. Growing need of gasping Covid-19 patients has rendered 1,000MT availability of the gas insufficient as hospitals across cities and towns reportedly struggled to treat unabated flow of breathless patients.
The state government informed the Gujarat high court on Monday that there are 52,036 Covid patients currently on oxygen support across the state. “With the surge in cases, oxygen demand has risen from 58 MT on March 15 to 1,000 MT on April 24.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was motivated to update its guidance for fully vaccinated people after seeing a rise in the number of vaccinated people and a fall in the rates of Covid-19 cases, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a virtual White House briefing on Tuesday. There s increasing data that suggests that most of transmission is happening indoors rather than outdoors – less than 10% of documented transmission in many studies have occurred outdoors, Walensky said.
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