National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has told the Supreme Court that the pandemic has orphaned 1,742 children, out of which at least 140 children have been left abandoned, while 7,464 children have lost at least one of their parents.
On Tuesday, 30 lakh Sputnik V doses from Russia landed in Hyderabad. Serum Institute of India has promised to deliver 10 crore Covishield doses in June.
To prevent the spread of pandemic, both the Centre and states are now focusing on vaccination drive. But are villagers living across the great Indian hinterland ready to take Covid vaccines?
On Friday night, in my prime time show ‘Aaj Ki Baat’, I had a long interview with Law, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad about the present controversy involving social media platforms. Prasad was emphatic in asserting that any foreign company, doing business inside India, will have to follow Indian laws.
At a time, when most of the people in cities across India are indoors due to lockdown enforced by state governments, and people practising Covid guidelines strictly, there are fraudsters who are playing with public health, by recycling medical waste and selling them in markets.
In Bhilwara district, there are 25 ambulances, out of which 10 do not have oxygen cylinders. To expect a government ambulance to carry patients to hospitals during an emergency is like asking for the moon. Forget about transporting bodies in ambulances to crematoriums.
Critics will question, why orders for vaccines were given only in January while the US had ordered the vaccines months earlier? They will say, we got emergency use permission only in January.
Cases of black fungus are being found mostly in those patients who have recently recovered from Covid-19. The fungal infection is more life-threatening and attacks those having weak symptoms or suffering from diabetes or cancer.
With the AIIMS issuing guidelines about detection and treatment of Black Fungus disease, I spoke to Dr Nikhil Tandon, Head of department of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes, in my prime time show ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on Thursday night, about various issues relating to this deadly epidemic. He is considered an expert on fungal infection.
More than 1,500 cases from Maharashtra and more than a thousand cases from Gujarat have been reported. The disease is spreading fast in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Delhi. The Centre is yet to tabulate statistics about black fungus from all states.
A senior doctor told me, how during the first wave, they used to make patients recover and send them back to their homes, but during the current second wave, it has become a tough task to save lives.
India TV reporters carried out investigations to find out from which companies these ventilators were procured, what were the defects and why these companies were not providing proper service and maintenance.
In Kesarpura village, 14 km from Rajasthan’s Ajmer city, 15 people died of Covid during the last ten days. In this village of 1,300 residents, the state government sent a team with vaccine stocks, but not a single villager took the vaccine. Only one person, and that too, a health worker, took the jab.
There was a tragic incident on Thursday in Goa Medical College Hospital, where 15 more patients died due to lack of oxygen supply. On Tuesday, 26 Covid patients had died in this hospital due to lack of oxygen. According to officials, oxygen supply stopped from midnight till 8 am, killing 15 Covid-19 patients.
The district collectors of both Ghazipur and Buxar denied that these bodies belonged to local residents. Drone cameras are being deployed at the river banks. The Director General of Bihar Police said that 71 floating bodies were recovered at Buxar, and aft
Active cases dipped by 4,000 to settle at 3.7 lakhs, but the number of Covid-related deaths jumped to 4,205 on Tuesday, the highest single day toll recorded till now. As of Tuesday, the cumulative death toll across India has crossed 2.5 lakh since the beginning of the pandemic.
The second wave of the pandemic has taken a severe toll on teachers in Aligarh Muslim University. At least 18 sitting professors of AMU have died during the past three weeks. AMU has its own medical college campus, these professors were given treatment on time but could not be saved.
With states like Karnataka and Delhi seeking more oxygen supply quota from the Centre, hospital beds are full with Covid-19 patients. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed on Friday that the oxygen supply position in the capital has improved. But many hospitals still face shortage of ICU beds and ventilators.
The spread of the pandemic clearly indicates that states in southern, western and northern regions are facing the full brunt of the second wave. By Thursday night, 16.48 crore Indians were administered Covid vaccine doses, but this cumulative total is very small compared to India’s population.
The Centre on Wednesday said the UK variant of Coronavirus is declining in proportion across India, but the double mutant variant, found in Maharashtra, is the main cause for the current surge in Covid-19 cases.
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