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Friday, October 4, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Delhi’s oxygen requirement down to 582 MT, surplus quota can be given to other states: Sisodia

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia thanked the Centre and HC for coming to the aid of the people while they were in distress due to a surge in the number of coronavirus cases.

Supreme Court judge Justice Chandrachud tests positive for Covid

The hearing in the suo motu case for ensuring distribution of essential supplies and services during Covid, before a bench headed by Justice Chandrachud, has been deferred.

In Arrah & Buxar, pharmacists and ‘jhola chaaps’ are treating Covid because doctors ‘refuse to’

Covid-19 patients in Bihar’s Arrah and Buxar districts are left to their fate as hospitals don’t have beds or staff, and private doctors have shut clinics.

Govt panel recommends increasing gap between 2 doses of Covishield to 12-16 weeks

The NTAGI has also suggested that pregnant women may be offered the choice to take any Covid vaccine and that lactating women can be inoculated any time after delivery.

Delhi court denies bail to Navneet Kalra in oxygen concentrator black marketing case

During a recent raid, 524 oxygen concentrators were recovered from three upscale restaurants owned by Kalra and it is suspected that he has left Delhi along with his family.

Maharashtra suspends vaccination drive for 18-45 age group, Delhi runs out of Covaxin

While the vaccination drive appeared to be faltering in several states, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan urged the state govts to first focus more on second dose vaccinations.

Why these Covid patients will need oxygen weeks or even months after recovering

Doctors say in the last wave about 15% Covid-recovered patients needed to be put on long-term oxygen because of lung fibrosis. This time the numbers may be even higher.

Labourers are backbone of a capitalist economy. India can’t leave them unattended in Covid

India’s working class, for whose betterment Ambedkar brought a series of legislation, is struggling to access social protection in the Covid crisis.

How Goa went from a 5% Covid test positivity rate in March to 50% today

The small coastal state is now scrambling to contain a mammoth Covid caseload, adding more than 2,500 new positive patients each day.

DU losing academic talent to Covid. University must rope in Patel Chest Institute

Being a premier university, DU has a pandemic responsibility it is not fulfilling. It must rise to the occasion as academic institutions world over are doing.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?