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Delhi Covid lockdown news live: Out of business, city restaurants get rent shove
The number of Covid cases fell below 2,500 for the first time on Saturday since the current wave has hit Delhi and overwhelmed the medical infrastructure. On Saturday, Delhi reported 2,260 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 3.5%, as compared to 26,169 cases on April 22 with a positivity rate of 36.24%. After several days, Covid fatalities in the city went below the 200 mark with 182 deaths being reported in the past 24 hours. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:Read Less
With the support of property owners, restaurants can hope to recover to pre Covid times in 2-3 years. As of now, the impact on the industry has been catastrophic.
Vishal Anand, founder, Moonshine Food Ventures
The second wave of the spread of the novel coronavirus has jolted the restaurant industry. With staff and diners battling Covid-19, imposition of restrictions by the government and almost no orders, many outlets have shut operations rather than looking at surviving merely on deliveries.
Other private hospitals in Delhi reeling under the shortage and inadequate supply are Fortis and Apollo among others.
Amphotericin-B is in severe short supply and there is huge black marketing going on. Hospitals were not even getting half of the supplies demanded. It is quite a bad situation. The sad part is that the drug is available in the black market and we don’t even know whether it is authentic. It is a sorry state of affairs for such a life threatening disease. We are not getting the medicines in the correct way. I think that is a major management failure on part of all the stakeholders.
Senior doctor working at a private hospital in Delhi
The number of vials needed is more than what is being approved, but we are trying to do our best. We did get some approvals and are awaiting more. Seven vials per day are required for a patient for ten days so one can easily calculate how many vials are needed as per the number of patients the city: Source
Hospitals continue to reel under shortage of Amphotericin-B even as people are being admitted to various hospitals in the city with suspected or confirmed cases of mucormycosis. Many claim that while the hospitals are not getting adequate supplies, the medicine is available in the black market and people are even hoarding it.
The drive-in vaccination session was extended to five sites from the existing two in Noida on Saturday. Now, three of the locations are in Greater Noida and two in Noida.
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