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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicCovid deaths

Topic: Covid deaths

North Delhi mayor claims ‘more Covid deaths’ took place than reported by Kejriwal govt

Mayor Jai Prakash of the BJP says official data showed 141 Covid deaths on 16 April but municipal records showed 193 bodies were cremated or buried.

In Ahmedabad, wait for last rites gets longer as bodies pile up at crematoriums

For families of deceased Covid patients, it's a long wait — from queuing up outside morgues to get bodies of their loved ones to finding a place for cremation.

Unprecedented crisis: No beds, gasping patients, rising death toll in Chhattisgarh’s Durg

Durg is the second worst affected district in the state in terms of Covid cases, and is among the 15 districts with the highest caseloads in the country.

Not only daily cases, Covid-19 fatality rates rising too in Gujarat, UP, Chhattisgarh

ThePrint’s daily Covid tracker that brings you the numbers that matter — from total cases, recoveries to fatality rates.

‘Dead bodies all over’: Lucknow funerals tell a story starkly different from UP govt’s claims

On 15 April, Yogi govt's health bulletin said UP recorded 104 Covid deaths in 24 hrs. But Lucknow alone saw 108 funerals that day, and this is just at crematoriums & not cemeteries.

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.

India registers 1.52 lakh new Covid cases in a day, active infections cross 11-lakh mark

The country recorded a steady increase in cases for the 32nd day. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 death toll has increased to 1,69,275 with 839 new fatalities in the last 24 hours.

As Covid deaths spike in second wave, Nagpur again turns city buses into hearses

Nagpur has registered the most Covid deaths of any district in worst-hit state of Maharashtra, and recorded 60 on 1 April — the highest in the second wave.

Daily Covid cases more than triple in one month, 251 deaths reported in 24 hours

ThePrint’s daily Covid tracker that brings you the numbers that matter — from total cases, tests done and recoveries to positivity rate and deaths.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.