He also said that experts at the national and global level have maintained that no matter how much governments increase facilities, the speed at which the infection cases are rising is "four times" its earlier rate.
Uttar Pradesh on Monday recorded 288 more COVID-19 deaths which pushed the toll to 13,447 while the infection tally rose to 13,42,413 with 29,192 fresh cases, an official statement said.
Madhukar Rainbow Children's Hospital in Malviya Nagar on Sunday sounded an alarm about their depleting stocks around noon, saying 50 people, including four newborns, were "at risk".
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The bench, headed by Justice DY Chandrachud, said till the formulation of a national policy by the Centre on admissions to hospitals, "no patient shall be denied hospitalisation or essential drugs in any state/UT for lack of local residential proof of that state/UT or even in the absence of identity proof."
At least 12 Covid patients including a doctor have lost their lives due to oxygen shortage in Delhi's Batra Hospital. Out of 12, 6 Covid patients died in ICU ward and 2 in the main ward.
As per the fire department, they received the call at 12.55 am about the fire in the ICU COVID ward of the hospital.
India is struggling with the second wave of the novel coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
Amid rise in coronavirus cases and shortage of oxygen supply in hospitals, the kin of the patients are seen line-up outside oxygen plant in Greater Noida.
While police said they are investigating the matter, the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), in a statement, said the Panchkula resident was admitted to the institute on April 11.
Satav, a Rajya Sabha member, is admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Jehangir Hospital, he said.
Commenting on the situation, Thane Municipal Corporation said the patients died while they were being shifted to another hospital.
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He said extra beds are being created at hospitals for infection patients and rejected the allegations that an oxygen tanker was stopped from going to Punjab.
The deputy chief minister was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
This includes 2,895 beds with oxygen lines in Chennai, which leads the table in terms of maximum number of infections.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that the capacity of the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre in South Delhi will be increased to 5,000 beds in the coming days.
A fire broke out in Ayush Hospital located on the fifth floor of a multi-storey building on Station Road in Surat at around 11.40 pm Sunday, after which sixteen patients admitted in the ICU were rescued and shifted to safer places with no casualty being reported in the incident.
Omprakash Bagde (31) and Govinda Pancheswar (25), were arrested and one cylinder has been recovered from their possession.
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