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1200-bed special Covid-19 hospital to come up in Gandhinagar
Shah said, "Ahmedabad will also have isolation centres for which private clubs like Karnavati club, ADC, GSC, Rajpath Club, Umiya Pariwar have given their consent. The infrastructural facilities like beds and other expenses will be borne by these organisations.
Glacier burst near India-China border, govt on high alert
Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar said, "We are trying to gather information whether any loss of life has occurred in the glacier burst. Due to bad weather in the region, we are unable to know the exact situation. Teams have been sent to take stock of the situation. The ITBP personnel deployed in the area are safe."
Maharashtra stunned as another hospital tragedy claims 15 patients
President R. N. Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Leader of Opposition (Assembly) Devendra Fadnavis and other leaders have expressed grief over the tragedy.
Install oxygen generation plants at Central hospitals in Delhi: Centre
Harsh Vardhan on Friday reviewed the Covid management preparedness at the Central government-run hospitals in Delhi, including Safdarjung Hospital, RML Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and AIIMS. Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, also joined the review meeting virtually.
Emergency financial powers given to armed forces medical services to treat Covid
As per the order issued on Friday, emergency financial powers have been delegated to the Directors General Medical Services, Army, Navy, Air Force, head of Medical Branches at formation and Command Headquarters of all three services and the Andaman and Nicobar Command and Joint Staff including Command Medical Officers of the Navy and Principal Medical Officers of the Air Force.
PM interacts with oxygen manufacturers, praises them
Modi appreciated the oxygen producers for increasing their production in the last few weeks. He acknowledged the several steps taken to increase the production of liquid oxygen and thanked the industry for diverting industrial oxygen to meet medical requirements.
India situation a devastating reminder of what this virus can do: WHO
"The situation in India is a devastating reminder of what the virus can do," Ghebreyesus said during a virtual briefing in Geneva. The situation in the country seems to be slipping out of hands with each passing day, amid an acute shortage of oxygen beds and key emergency drugs like Remdesivir.
CJI asked me whether SRK would want to mediate Ayodhya title dispute: SCBA chief
In his remarks at the farewell of the Chief Justice, organised by SCBA, Singh said during the initial stages of the Ayodhya title dispute, then Justice Bobde was of the firm view that this dispute should be settled through mediation.
Mamata accuses Centre of diverting oxygen supply to Bengal
"In 2020, the WHO had told the Central government to increase the storage of oxygen but it had ignored the suggestion. Now when the entire country is reeling under the crisis of oxygen shortage, it has decided to divert the oxygen supply scheduled for the state to Uttar Pradesh.
First in NE, double mutant Covid strain detected in Assam
Health officials said that before Assam, the double mutant strain was found in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal. Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted: "Recent samples from Dibrugarh Airport are positive for B.1.617 strain or the Indian double mutant (L452R and E484Q) strain of SARS-Cov-2. We need to be very very careful."
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