Only 66 per cent of India s healthcare workers have been fully vaccinated. (File)
New Delhi:
Anas Mujahid, 26, a junior Resident Doctor at Delhi s Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital a dedicated Covid specialty died within hours of testing positive due to Covid. He is the youngest of 244 doctors who have lost their lives to Covid this year in India s second wave. Last year, 736 doctors had lost their lives during the first wave. A total of nearly 1,000 doctors across India have lost their lives due to Covid so far.
Mujahid is survived by his parents and four siblings.
A week has gone by, but his friend and colleague Dr Aamir Sohail is still struggling to come to terms with the loss.
Delhi COVID crisis: Blind parents lose only child to virus; couple mourn death of five-month-old Pari
On Thursday evening, Jitender Singh Shunty , a former BJP MLA, buried Krishu in a corner of the Old Seemapuri cremation ground.
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The caretaker of crematorium, center, tries to console a man who lost his five months old child to COVID-19 as they perform a post burial ritual at the Seemapuri crematorium in New Delhi. (Photo | AP) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital on Thursday, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital.
Blind parents lose infant boy to Covid as father continues his battle in Delhi
Blind parents lose infant boy to Covid as father continues his battle in Delhi
Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital.
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This was the second time in two days that Singh was burying a child so young. (Representative image: PTI)
Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital.
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The active cases have increased to 37,10,525 comprising 15.65% of the total infections.
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Oxygen cylinders kept ready at Regional Eye Hospital, where oxygen beds for COVID-19 patients are provided in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, May 12, 2021
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The active cases have increased to 37,10,525 comprising 15.65% of the total infections.
India added 3,62,727 new coronavirus infections in a day taking the COVID-19 tally of cases to 2,37,03,665, while the death toll rose to 2,58,317 with 4,120 daily fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.
The active cases have increased to 37,10,525 comprising 15.65% of the total infections.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 83.26%, the data updated at 8 am showed. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,97,34,823 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.09%, the data stated.
. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) Sacramento-based doctors of Indian descent are raising money to send oxygen to that country as a sudden spike in COVID-19 rates has led to thousands of deaths daily and overwhelmed medical facilities there. You see the difference between the two health-care systems (of the U.S. and India) . Then you hear (about) people who are dying on the street because they can t even get into the hospital, said Dr. Manoj Mittal, an ICU physician at Sutter General Hospital. How do you even comprehend that? Mittal is a board member of United Visions International, the Sacramento organization that s trying to get more oxygen to people in India. The goal is to raise $255,000 to purchase 300 oxygen concentrators devices that extract oxygen from the air to send a limitless supply through ventilators.