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New Delhi: People over 18 years of age wait in a queue to receive their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination centre
The national capital recorded 338 COVID-19 deaths and 19,953 cases in a day with a positivity rate of 26.73 percent, according to the health bulletin issued by the Delhi health department on Wednesday morning. The department could not release the document, which contains important figures reflecting the coronavirus situation in the city, on Tuesday night, and said, âwe are also looking into the reasons why it was delayedâ.
This is the second time on the trot that the number of cases remained below 20,000.
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Oxygen tanker reaches Delhi’s GTB Hospital
Some major government and private hospitals in Delhi received a fresh stock of medical oxygen in the early hours of Wednesday, averting a crisis just in time, according to officials. Gangaram Hospital received 5,000 cubic meters of oxygen supply from a private vendor before 3 am. This stock should last till Wednesday afternoon. The supply from another oxygen firm is still awaited, sources said.
An official at the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital confirmed that a truck carrying oxygen from a firm reached them around 1:30 am.
Dr. Suresh Kumar, medical director of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, said a truck carrying oxygen from a vendor reached the facility around 3 am.
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Over 7,400 people receive COVID-19 vaccine shots on Monday in Delhi
Over 7,400 healthcare workers received COVID-19 vaccine shots in Delhi on Monday as the inoculation drive picked up pace in the city, recording 91 per cent turnout for the day, officials said. The targeted number for vaccination on January 25 was 8,100, they said. On January 25, 7,408 people were administered coronavirus vaccine, with a coverage span of 91.5 per cent. AEFI (adverse events following immunisation) was reported in 14 persons, all minor cases, a senior official of the Delhi Health Department said.
Under the nationwide mega vaccination drive launched on January 16, a total of 4,319 (53 per cent) health workers against a target of 8,117 were administered the shots at 81 centres across the city on day one.
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Another Delhi resident tests positive for new coronavirus strain
One more Delhi resident has tested positive for the new coronavirus strain detected in the UK, sources said on Friday, as the authorities conducted door-to-door check-up of the people who had recently arrived here from the UK and those who came in their contact in the city. Till Thursday, their count had stood at 13. One more person has tested positive for the UK strain, while five others whose samples were also sent for genome sequencing came out negative. These all cases are part of the door-to-door exercise, a source said.