Police and senior officials of the administration in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are stalling tankers carrying oxygen, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
Indian social media has been inundated with posts about Covid — from availability or lack of oxygen and hospital beds to treatment options. What an analysis of Google Trends found.
Delhi High Court says governments must 'beg, borrow or steal' to ensure protection of fundamental emergency. Centre assures there will be unobstructed supply of oxygen to Delhi.
In the SOP, doctors recommend different body positions including prone position to improve blood oxygen of Covid patients. These can also be tried with patients in home isolation.
On Wednesday, 24 Covid patients died at Nashik Municipal Corporation-run Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital after a leak in main oxygen storage tank. Relatives of several patients claim negligence.
The directive under the stringent Disaster Management Act 2005, comes in the wake of reports that some states blocked supply of medical oxygen to other states.
The petition sought direction to the Centre, state govt and Inox, which supplies oxygen to hospitals in Delhi, to immediately supply 3,000 cubic metre of oxygen.
Kejriwal said the plan to airlift is to save on time since a major chunk of the freshly allotted quota of oxygen to Delhi comes from Odisha, which is far away.
The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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