Bihar: Nitish extends lockdown
Bihar: Nitish extends lockdown
Only three of the 38 districts have more than 200 new cases a day but Bihar doesn t want to risk another surge
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UPDATED: May 24, 2021 16:56 IST
Bihar Chief Minister and Janta Dal United President Nitish Kumar at Badarpur, New Delhi, 2019 (Hardik Chhabra)
The ravaging Covid second wave looks to be slowing down in Bihar, but the state government is unwilling to take any chances. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday tweeted that the lockdown will be extended till June 1. The earlier announced lockdown was up to May 25. “The lockdown has had a good impact and a decline in Covid cases has been noticed,” said the chief minister.
UPDATED: May 22, 2021 13:11 IST
Gaurav Rai loading oxygen cylinders in his car for delivery; Photo by Ranjan Rahi
On April 8, when Amit Sanyal saw his oxygen levels falling, he dialed Gaurav Rai for help. Rai wasn’t a friend but Sanyal knew the person they call Patna’s ‘Oxygen Man’ was his best hope. The next day, even as Sanyal’s oxygen level plummeted below 90, Rai walked in with a cylinder. “He entered my room without any fear about getting infected, fixed me with a mask and a 10-litre cylinder and also gave me a pep talk,” Sanyal recalls. A day later, Rai delivered a cylinder for Sanyal’s mother who was also Covid-infected. Sanyal says he owes his life to Rai’s timely help.
: Saturday, May 1, 2021, 8:53 AM IST
Angels of Mumbai: Meet the âoxygen manâ who is saving the lives of gasping COVID-19 patients
Many citizens are coming forward to help out in whatever way they can. And, one such individual is Malad resident Shahnawaz Sheikh, who sold his car to help patients who are in desperate need of oxygen cylinders.
Mumbai: While India continues to grapple with the havoc caused for the second wave of Covid-19, several countries from world over have stepped in to lend a helping hand with financial aid, essential medical equipments, and other things. But, the battle is nowhere near over. The need for oxygen is still high. Several Covid patients are gasping for air, as the country continues to grapple with the second Covid wave.
On Sunday, Maria Mehra, a 56-year-old COVID-19 patient, was gasping for breath at her home in Mumbai. Her oxygen level had dropped to 76 and she needed immediate hospitalisation.
But there were no beds available, given the record number of infections across the metropolis over the past several weeks.
Her desperate family tried frantically to arrange a hospital bed or an oxygen cylinder for her but couldn’t find one until Maria’s brother-in-law Jackson Quadras, 47, reached out to Shahnawaz Shahalam Sheikh.
Sheikh provided them with an oxygen cylinder around midnight.
Hours later, Quadras secured a hospital bed in Malad, a suburb in north Mumbai, for Maria but remains thankful to Sheikh whose timely intervention helped her.
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