In Covid-19 review meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also said coverage of coronavirus vaccines' booster doses should be expanded, particularly to vulnerable people. He also said everyone should follow Covid-appropriate...
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the Delhi government "wanted to account for the reason behind deaths" during the pandemic and had constituted a "Death Audit Committee", but the centre rejected the plan.
But, the government said, there was an unprecedented surge in demand for medical oxygen during the second Covid wave and it peaked at nearly 9,000 MT.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday alleged that Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya dismissed the need to form a panel to probe oxygen shortage-related deaths in the national capital.
Union Minister Giriraj Singh replied to Rahul Gandhi in Italian after the latter criticised the government for claiming no oxygen shortage deaths were reported in the second wave.
It was an airless storm that blew over India this summer. Human beings were felled, like ninepins, after being starved of oxygen itself. How have the victims’ families coped?
No matter what the govt says, the oxygen crisis claimed lives. Denying it means we have not learnt lessons.
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Modi has been holding a number of meetings in this regard amid apprehensions of a third wave of the pandemic.
The five member sub group appointed by SC is divided on whether Delhi govt had exaggerated its requirement
