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Delhi Covid news live: Lockdown extended to next Monday till 5am, says CM Arvind Kejriwal
The Delhi government has extended lockdown in the city till May 3. "We had imposed a 6-day lockdown in Delhi. The lockdown is being extended to next Monday till 5am," says CM Arvind Kejriwal. The number of people dying due to Covid-19 in the national capital in a single day touched 357 on Saturday — the highest till date. Delhi recorded 24,103 Covid cases, taking the total number to over 10 lakh. As many as 74,702 tests were conducted in the city in the past 24 hours, of which only 42,346 were conducted using RT-PCR, which is considered low. The positivity rate stood at 32.27%. Kejriwal has sent an SOS to his counterparts in other states seeking their help in boosting the city’s oxygen supply. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:
We have started a portal that will be updated every two hours by oxygen manufacturers, suppliers and hospitals for better management of oxygen supply. The Central and state teams are working together.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
We had imposed a 6-day lockdown in Delhi. The lockdown is being extended to next Monday till 5am: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Panic buying hits supply of antivirals, oximeters in Gurugram
Panic buying and hoarding has created a shortage of common medicines that are being increasingly used by Covid patients in home isolation. Not just drugs such as Fabiflu and Doxycycline, oximeters and vaporisers are also vanishing off the counters amid allegations that even those who do not have any symptoms are hoarding them at home. Chemists across Gurugram said since a majority of patients were in home isolation, they were resorting to self-medication and following unverified information being circulated on social media.
Advocate Shobha Gupta has moved the Delhi high court seeking direction to Delhi government to immediately declare judicial officers in Delhi as frontline workers.
Only 15 Covid ICU beds left in Delhi hospitals
Active Covid-19 cases in country recorded at 26,82,751: Union health ministry
Single day rise of 3,49,691 Covid-19 infections, 2,767 fatalities push India's tally of cases to 1,69,60,172, death toll to 1,92,311: Health ministry
After Kejriwal's request, Kerala Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala urges state govt to airlift surplus medical oxygen cylinders to Delhi
State of Delhi which is a home for lakhs of Keralites is going through a critical phase. Oxygen shortage in Delhi i… https://t.co/o5cyFwXUXn
— Ramesh Chennithala (@chennithala) 1619273734000Delhi: Weeklong lockdown to be extended? Final call today
Delhi government may extend the weeklong lockdown, which is currently in force till Monday 5am. The lockdown was imposed from 10pm of April 19 onwards after the number of Covid cases rose alarmingly leaving the government with no option other than going for strict curbs to break the chain of the coronavirus transmission. The government has taken various measures, including increasing the coverage of vaccination, strengthening the healthcare infrastructure and imposing the weekend curfew and weeklong lockdown to tackle the fourth wave of the pandemic. READ FULL STORY HERE
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital received 5 MT oxygen at 4.15am. Should last 11-12 hrs. Oxygen running in full pressure after long time.
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Cops set up digital data bank of plasma donors, recipients
Delhi Police commissioner S N Shrivastava has set up a digital data bank of plasma donors in order to facilitate plasma therapy for Covid-19 patients. The initiative, named Jeevan Rakshak, will create an interface between plasma donors and recipients after due authentication. A Google form has been devised for this purpose. People in need of plasma will register their requests through a designated link available on the official website of Delhi Police in the name of “donate plasma — save lives”. READ MORE HERE
Kejriwal’s SOS to CMs: Please send us your spare oxygen
With the Covid-ravaged city still in the grip of an oxygen scarcity, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal sent an SOS to all the states requesting them for any spare gas they had. In a letter to the CMs on Saturday, Kejriwal said he would be grateful if the states could provide Delhi with any amount of oxygen, along with tankers, transportation being a major problem behind the shortage. He asked for this request to be treated as an SOS to save the capital. READ MORE HERE
Dr Sharma, who is the nodal officer for Covid management at the hospital, said she spent16-18 hours daily at the hospital, which was now affecting her mental health. “All healthcare workers are suffering, both physically and mentally. We have no time for our family, which is causing anxiety and other problems among our parents and children,” Dr Sharma said.
Dr Geetika Sharma, additional medical superintendent of Asian Hospital in Faridabad, said the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases over the past three weeks has overwhelmed all the hospitals. “It has led to a mismatch between the supply and the demand. We have tried to increase the beds to reduce the gap, but issues such as oxygen supply remain affected leading to a crisis-like situation,” she said.
The disruption in oxygen supply has added to the crisis. Delhi government-run Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital on Saturday reduced the number of Covid beds from 986 to 700 amid the deepening of crisis over the scarcity of oxygen, which is vital to save the critically ill patients. On Friday, the city governmentrun Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital had reduced the number of Covid beds from 650 to 350 due to shortage of oxygen. All 350 beds at the hospital are ICU beds.
Almost all the hospitals in Delhi are running full capacity. As of 11pm on Saturday, only one ventilator bed was available across the city, while the number of ICU beds without a ventilator stood at 11. Many families have been going to neighbouring states to seek admission for critical care of Covid-19 patients.
“Testing has reduced significantly over the past few days. The number of cases recorded do not represent the real picture of how widespread the disease is,” a senior doctor at AIIMS said.
Though the number of new cases being reported daily has not gone up significantly over the past week, the positivity rate remains high. On Saturday, Delhi recorded 24,103 Covid cases, taking the total number to over 10 lakh. As many as 74,702 tests were conducted in the city in the past 24 hours, of which only 42,346 were conducted using RT-PCR, which is considered low. The positivity rate stood at 32.27%.
In the past 24 days, Delhi has recorded 2,871 deaths, averaging 120 deaths daily. In March, the average death reported daily was around four.
The number of people dying due to Covid-19 in the national capital in a single day touched 357 on Saturday — the highest till date. Earlier, on Thursday and Friday, the city recorded 306 and 348 deaths, respectively, in 24 hours.