Amid the Omicron scare, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on Monday said all samples that test positive for COVID-19 will now be sent for genome sequencing.
There’s a new scourge in town. A cousin of the old one…Delta Plus. Is it nastier? Will it infect faster? Will we see a third wave of asphyxiation? Dire questions swirl in the air.
Covid and oxygen shortage are a fatal mix, the second wave proved it. How prepared are we for a third?
Several trucks had been stuck at the Assam-Mizoram border since July 26 due to a blockade following a border dispute flare-up that left six Assam police officers dead.
It is the second most common gas in our atmosphere, 21 per cent, and we live because it is there. And yet, there wasn’t enough oxygen and people died during the Covid second wave in India. Why?
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?
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.
'I can’t tell you what it was like in chronological order. I haven’t forgotten…I just find it hard to remember.' Historian Narayani Basu recalls the horror of battling to breathe.
If what happened in India had happened in Australia, there would have been an independent and high-powered judicial investigation, Indian-origin cardiologist...
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Inadequate global supply, complicated geography of the world's largest archipelago nation, and hesitancy among some Indonesians stand as major roadblocks in...
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Th sit-in protest was held by Delhi BJP unit leaders including President Adesh Gupta who demanded the CM's arrest.
Kejriwal sought to move on from the controversy over a Supreme Court-appointed panel report on the capital city’s oxygen demand.
As many as 21 critically ill Covid-19 patients had died at the Jaipur Golden Hospital on the night of April 23-24 due to Oxygen shortage.
A Supreme Court-appointed audit team on Friday found that the Arvind Kejriwal government allegedly 'inflated' the national capital's oxygen requirements amid...
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On Friday, Manish Sisodia denies existence of any report by the Supreme Court-appointed Oxygen Audit Committee about Delhi exaggerating its oxygen requirement...
The Supreme Court on May 8 had formed a 12-member task force to improve the oxygen distribution system in the country.
'It is true that the Covid second wave has been quite severe and it overwhelmed the system for a while. Yet, we never let the situation go out of sight,' says...
In the video, the owner of Paras Hospital Dr Arinjay Jain is heard telling some people that the oxygen supply was cut for five minutes as part of a 'mock...
The oxygen generation plants, manufactured in Europe, were airlifted from Frankfurt, Germany by an Indian Air Force C-17 cargo plane on June 5 and delivered at...
In normal times daily production of liquid medical oxygen was 900 MT, which has now risen over 10 times to nearly 9,500 MT, the prime minister noted.
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Businessman Navneet Kalra was arrested on May 17 after police seized more than 500 oxygen concentrators from three restaurants owned by him in Delhi-NCR
The Indian Railways is chugging away quietly amidst the pandemic, putting its metal wagons at the service of India. An interview with the CEO:
An emotional Renedy also appealed to everyone to come forward and ensure that the northeastern state does not face the oxygen crunch like the other parts of...
