Coronavirus LIVE Updates: The police has also intensified vigil at three major check posts. People who are crossing the border through the three check posts are asked to furnish their negative reports of RT-PCR, done 48 hours before travelling, or their vaccination certificates
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LATEST Updates: The police has also intensified vigil at three major check posts. People who are crossing the border through the three check posts are asked to furnish their negative reports of RT-PCR, done 48 hours before travelling, or their vaccination certificates.
After entering Odisha, they have to be quarantined for 14 days.
Families of the patients in Saroj hospital in Delhi's Rohini area have been given three hour notice to find beds, according to media reports.
The incident comes after Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram hospital Friday had reported that 25 severely ill patients had died in the past 24 hours and 60 other patients were at risk.
At least 20 people died in Jaipur Golden hospital in Delhi because of oxygen shortage, said an official on Saturday. The official said that only half an hour of oxygen supply was available.
'Oxygen supply to last only half an hour now, more than 200 lives are at stake. We lost 20 people due to an oxygen shortage last night,' said a hospital official.
India registered 3,46,786 new cases in the past 24 hours, said the Union health ministry on Saturday. With this, the caseload in the country increased to 1,66,10,481.
Appealing for urgent help from Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Anil Baijal, the hospital stressed that more than 130 patients were on life support.
Delhi logged 24,331 fresh cases and a record single-day jump of 348 deaths on Friday, according to the latest health bulletin.
The city has reported around 2,100 deaths due to the deadly virus in the last 11 days. It had recorded 306 COVID deaths and 26,169 cases with a positivity rate of 36.24 percent, the highest since the pandemic began a year ago, on Thursday.
On Wednesday, 24,638 cases and 249 deaths were registered with a positivity rate of 31.28 percent.
The National Capital had witnessed 28,395 cases, the highest single-day jump so far, with a positivity rate of 32.82 percent on Tuesday. Authorities logged 306 deaths on Thursday, 249 on Wednesday, 277 on Tuesday, 240 on Monday, 161 on Sunday, and 167 on Saturday.
With the fresh cases, Delhi's tally climbed to 9,80,679 on Friday. The toll stands at 13,541, the bulletin stated.
A total of 75,037 tests, including 43,711 RT-PCR tests, were conducted the previous day, it said.
The number of tests is significantly less than the average of around 90,000 tests a day being conducted in the capital. So far, over 8.75 lakh patients have recovered in Delhi, it added.
The number of active cases in the city increased to 92,029 from 91,618 on Thursday, the bulletin stated.
The number of people under home isolation increased to 48,502 from 46,585 on Thursday, while that of containment zones mounted to 23,561 from 22,000 the day before, it said.
Senior medical experts on Monday said the second wave of in Delhi is likely to peak within a week after possibly hitting a positivity rate of 50 percent before the numbers start to go down.
