Delhi extends lockdown for a week till May 3
Delhi lockdown extended: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the lockdown will be extended till 5 am on May 3
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Delhi lockdown extended till May 3
Delhi government on Sunday announced that the lockdown that is currently in place will be extended by another week till May 3. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the lockdown will be extended till 5 am on May 3. We had imposed a 6-day lockdown in Delhi. The lockdown is being extended to next Monday till 5 am, said CM Kejriwal at a press conference. We have started a portal that will be updated every two hours by oxygen manufacturers, suppliers and hospitals for better management of oxygen supply. The Central and State teams are working together, said CM Kejriwal.
At least 45 Covid-19 patients have died in Delhi over two days after their hospitals fell short of oxygen, doctors said on Saturday amid a crisis they say has been precipitated by the epidemic’s explosive growth and poor government planning and preparedness.
Twenty patients with severe Covid-19 had died at the Jaipur Golden Hospital in northwest Delhi, hospital authorities said on Saturday, a day after the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in central Delhi reported 25 deaths following a fall in oxygen pressure in its critical care lines.
On Saturday night, Ganga Ram was again in crisis mode, with an official saying: “The lives of more than 100 patients are at risk. We have oxygen that will last only 45 minutes to an hour.”
Tears, prayers, police, JCB: How Saroj Hospital in Delhi saved over 100 lives
The nurses, paramedics and others at the private hospital had spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police, but to no avail.
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NEW DELHI: At the Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi, distraught staff broke down and started praying anxiously as the lives of over 100 patients hung by a thread with oxygen supply rapidly depleting.
The nurses, paramedics and others at the private hospital had spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police, but to no avail.
Indian hospitals turn away patients in Covid-19 ‘tsunami’International 2021-04-25, by Editor Comments Off 0
Overwhelmed hospitals in India begged for oxygen supplies on Saturday as the country’s coronavirus infections soared again overnight in a “tsunami” of disease, setting a new world record for cases for the third consecutive day.
Max Healthcare, which runs a network of hospitals in north India, tweeted that it had less than two hours of oxygen left while Fortis Healthcare, another big chain, said it was suspending new admissions in Delhi.
“We are running on backup, waiting for supplies since morning,” Fortis said.
India is in the grip of a rampaging second wave of the pandemic, hitting a rate of one Covid-19 death in just under every four minutes in Delhi as the capital’s underfunded health system buckles.