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BENGALURU: The first non-stop Bengaluru-US flight inaugurated in January, connecting the city and San Francisco, has been temporarily grounded following poor patronage as a result of the lockdown in Karnataka due to the pandemic.
Aviation sources said Air India may resume the flight operation from June 10. The flight was inaugurated on January 11 this year with an all-woman crew, including four pilots, operating it to the Kempegowda International Airport. The return flight left Bengaluru the following day with 220 passengers.
Second wave of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown have left the aviation industry in a crisis. While limited domestic travel continues, international flights have been restricted to air bubbles between Indian and other countries. The US, among other nations, initially restricted and subsequently banned flights from India with an increase in daily fresh Covid cases in April and May.
Several hospitals in Bengaluru have been sending out appeals for oxygen, some of them even asking patients, who have already been admitted, to find a bed elsewhere as they are running out of the life-giving gas.
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BENGALURU: Scarcity of beds and shortage of antiviral drug Remdesivir came into focus when a doctor, an internal medicine specialist at a Bengaluru-based lab, lost her 70-year-old father to Covid on Thursday. He was a kidney transplant recipient.
Dr Ashwini Sarode told TOI that despite her contacts with doctors in many hospitals, she could not get a bed for her father in any of the top hospitals or doses of Remdesivir. After much effort, he was finally admitted to Sparsh hospital on Mysore Road on Tuesday (April 13). Prior to that he was treated in another hospital for nearly 10 days.
Updated Apr 13, 2021 | 13:39 IST Bus services were largely hampered for the sixth consecutive day in Karnataka, as the indefinite strike by employees of the road transport corporations on wage-related issues continued on Monday. Bus services were largely hampered for the sixth consecutive day in Karnataka, as the indefinite strike by employees of the road transport corporations on wage-related issues continued on Monday, | Photo Credit: PTI
Bengaluru: Bus services were largely hampered for the sixth consecutive day in Karnataka, as the indefinite strike by employees of the road transport corporations on wage-related issues continued on Monday, even as some workers reported for duty.