Prayagraj: While over 850 Covid patients have died in Prayagraj so far, the Covid positive women in the city have given birth to a total of 227 healthy children at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, city’s only Level-3 Covid facility, in the last one year.
The hospital witnessed 230 deliveries, of which three women gave birth to stillborn babies. Four children out of the 227 healthy deliveries were found infected with coronavirus. All the four recovered later.
Three Covid-infected women gave birth to twins. The three mothers and the six children are all healthy.
Two women died due to excessive Covid infection, and the child of one of them could not be saved.
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About 40 bodies believed to be COVID-19 victims, have washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in northern India, officials said on Monday.
The pandemic has been spreading fast into India s vast rural hinterland, overwhelming local health facilities as well as crematoriums and cemeteries.
Local official Ashok Kumar said that about 40 corpses washed up in Buxar district near the border between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, two of India s poorest states. We have directed concerned officials to dispose of all bodies, to either bury or cremate them, Kumar told AFP.
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Some media reports said the number of corpses could be as high as 100.
May 09, 2021 Coronavirus outbreak in India - Family members along with medical workers shift a COVID-19 patient to Level-3 ward of Swaroop Rani Nehru hospital. - Prabhat Kumar Verma/ZUMA Wire/dpa
Coronavirus outbreak in India - Family members along with medical workers shift a COVID-19 patient to Level-3 ward of Swaroop Rani Nehru hospital. - Prabhat Kumar Verma/ZUMA Wire/dpa
India, currently undergoing the world s worst Covid-19 outbreak, has recorded 403,738 fresh infections and 4,092 deaths in the past 24 hours, the government said on Sunday.
The numbers brought the overall caseload to over 22 million and the death toll to 242,362 in the country reeling under the second wave of the pandemic, data released by the federal Health Ministry showed.
For the first time, India has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-19 related deaths as cases continue to surge across the country and two more states go into lockdown.
Saturday s record of 4,187 deaths takes the country s official death toll from the virus to nearly 240,000, although the true figure is believed to be much higher.
A further 401,000 new infections were also confirmed in the last 24 hours, meaning India has recorded over 400,000 new cases for three consecutive days.
Two southern states in India became the latest to declare lockdowns, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement a nationwide shutdown.
At over 300,000, Karnataka s capital of Bengaluru has the highest active caseload of any Indian city.
Prayagraj: At a time when a large number of Covid patients have been struggling to find oxygen cylinders in different hospitals of the city, including both government and private hospitals, authorities of Swaroop Rani Nehru (SRN) and Tej Bahadur Sapru hospital, also called as Beli hospital, promise a better future. The administration has decided that patients of these two hospitals would be provided with life-saving oxygen, not through the present system but oxygen pipelines.
It has been decided to install the network of pipelines using which the oxygen would be provided to the patients at their bedside itself. Ward number 4, 15 and 16 at SRN and 112 beds at Beli hospital would be provided with an oxygen pipeline. At SRN, the work would be done for Rs 13 lakhs while at Beli, the oxygen gas pipeline would be installed for Rs 41.5 lakh. PWD has invited online tenders for these works till May 6.