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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Mumbai Police issues prohibitory orders under Section 144 to contain Covid spread

The order is part of the Maharashtra govt’s curfew- like restrictions on public movement over the next 15 days across the state.

Surgeons, gynaecologists, paediatricians — rural health report flags huge specialist shortage

Latest Rural Health Statistics report shows 78.9% shortfall of surgeons, 69.7% of obstetricians & gynaecologists, 78.2% of physicians, and 78.2% of paediatricians.

Gasping patients wait in ambulances, Ahmedabad’s largest Covid facility has no bed for them

All Covid patients waiting outside Ahmedabad Civil Hospital find themselves in this position because the hospital is out of oxygen and ventilator beds amid a surge in infections.

Outside Ahmedabad’s largest Covid hospital, long queue of ambulances & endless wait for bed

Ambulance drivers, working 12-hr shifts, claimed each patient has to wait for 5-6 hrs, at least, to get a bed in hospital. The wait for an ambulance itself goes beyond 12 hrs at times.

As Modi’s ‘Tika Utsav’ ends, many states & pvt hospitals wait for Centre to fill vaccine gap

Govt has said vaccine shortage is a problem of states’ planning not supply, but several states say they haven’t received doses despite PM’s focus on increasing inoculation.

Covid patients’ bodies pile up at Lucknow crematoriums as staff is ‘scared’ or visiting Kumbh

Lucknow municipal body scrambles for extra pyre wood, electric crematoriums as deaths surge. Doctors say number of critical patients in hospitals has gone up too.

In UP, MP & Gujarat, BJP ministers & MLAs are blaming bureaucrats for Covid spike mess

UP minister writes to state health secy alleging ‘laxity’, MP MLA accuses additional chief secy of ‘fudging figures’, while in Gujarat, BJP chief battles CM over distribution of drug.

The good news about Covid — it now holds the key to unlocking an HIV vaccine

Covid saw researchers world over collaborate at an unprecedented scale & churn out a vast library of information. This data could now help develop a HIV vaccine.

Delhi govt directs hospitals to strictly follow admission protocol for Covid patients

The Directorate General of Health Services said that severe cases involving respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation should be admitted to a dedicated Covid hospital.

The science behind the Sputnik V vaccine & decoding India’s disastrous second wave

Shekhar Gupta explains how the Russian Sputnik V works and sheds some light on India’s Covid ‘disaster’.

On Camera

Haryana win is redemption, J&K defeat is vindication. BJP is walking out of Lok Sabha poll fog

A leader's charisma is a big plus. But don't underestimate the craft of mounting an election campaign. Haryana is BJP's reward for mastering it. All-round participation and peaceful polling in J&K too is a win.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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?