Fifty-eight students remain locked down at the Spurthy College of Nursing in Anekal, South Bengaluru, which has emerged as a Covid cluster after 17 pupils tested positive for the novel coronavirus. On Saturday night, five more students were found infected with Covid-19, raising the tally to 17.
Universal Gas factory, an oxygen cylinder distribution centre at Peenya, in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
This continues to be a huge problem despite the State government claiming that oxygen is not in short supply
Although the State government has been claiming that there is no shortage of liquid medical oxygen, many hospitals continued to ask their admitted patients to shift to other facilities as they are running out of stock. Government helplines 108 and 1912 were flooded with calls seeking help.
Since Tuesday morning, the Emergency Response Team (ERT), a volunteer group, has been getting many calls from desperate families. ERT volunteers said they have got several calls from families of patients admitted in as many eight hospitals in various parts of the city on Tuesday, requesting help in finding oxygenated beds.
The consignment of Covishield received at Bengaluru Airport. Photo: Special Arrangements
The vaccine will be first administered to the registered 6.6 lakh healthcare workers apart from other frontline workers
Karnataka on Tuesday finally received its first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine. The consignment comprising 54 boxes of 6.47 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine reached Bengaluru airport at 11.40 a.m.
The vaccine consignment weighing 1,728 kg was received by a team of officials comprising Bengaluru Urban District Health Officer (DHO) Srinivas Golur and other Health Department officials in charge of the State vaccine store in Bengaluru. The consignment was then transported to the State vaccine store on the premises of the Health Department’s old building near Anand Rao Circle in a vaccine van.