Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 21
The UT Administration has decided not to admit new Covid-19 patients to Sood Dharamshala and Dhanwantry Hospital.
In the orders issued today, Yashpal Garg, i
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Naina Mishra
Chandigarh, April 4
With a spike in Covid cases, the government-run hospitals in Chandigarh have been witnessing a steady rise in the patient count.
City hospitals have already surpassed 50 per cent occupancy and ICU beds have been exhausted in a few of these. According to doctors, the severity of the disease in Covid patients coming to the hospital is higher this time as compared to the previous wave. At the PGI, there is a capacity of 300 beds for Covid patients of which 178 have been occupied.
Of the total Covid beds, 50 are for ICU and all of these are currently occupied by critically ill patients.
Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, March 10
The UT Administration has brought back some restrictions on the number of guests in a function in order to contain a rise in COVID-19 cases.
The Administrati
Chandigarh: People in khaki fought the virus valiantly
The pandemic allowed the gap between the police and the general public to be bridged Updated: December 29, 2020 9:16:03 am
Inspector Narinder Patial at Bapu Dham Colony, which saw the most number of coronavirus cases (Express Photo)
The Year of the coronaviruspandemic has not been easy on the men and women in khaki. They not only enforced the Covid-19 protocol in the Tricity, but also battled the virus.
Constable Suman Kumari, one of the first UT police officer deputed on the frontline, was also the first to get infected with this virus on May 12. Since then, almost 197 police personnel including one IPS officer, four Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSP), 37 Assistant Sub Inspectors (ASIs), five sub inspectors, four inspectors, 36 head constables (HCs) and 103 constables have contracted the coronavirus while performing their duty.