Outpouring of support from US for India, COVID-19 help touches USD half a billion
Business | May 10, 2021 9:44 ISTAmerica has responded with unprecedented financial assistance worth nearly USD half a billion to India
America has responded with unprecedented financial assistance worth nearly USD half a billion to India
Dubai’s long-haul carrier Emirates will begin shipping aid from the World Health Organization and other groups into India for free
BJP's West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma said: "It is shocking that Delhi government is seizing oxygen cylinders of socio-religious organisations doing free distribution while its Minister is found hoarding 650 oxygen cylinders."
The Supreme Court has set up a National Task Force (NTF) to facilitate a public health response to COVID-19 based on scientific and specialised domain knowledge. Watch Experts decodes how this task force will work and tackle Oxygen Crisis?
A total of 67 new ventilators are lying unused at the 100-bedded COVID-19 isolation ward set up at a medical college
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to waive all forms of taxes and customs duty on equipment and drugs being used to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
A consignment carrying oxygen generators and 1000 ventilators on Sunday reached India from the UK
Bengaluru Central Crime Branch police have arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with black marketing of medical oxygen at 10 times higher the rate fixed by the government.
The Delhi Police has transferred the case of alleged black-marketing and hoarding of oxygen concentrators to Crime Branch
Gautam Buddh Nagar on Thursday reported 10 fatalities. The death toll reached 288 in Ghaziabad and 271 in Gautam Buddh Nagar with a cumulative 559 fatalities in the two neighboring districts, according to data released by the Uttar Pradesh Health Department for a 24-hour period.
According to the latest health bulletin released by the Delhi government, 50,425 patients are in home isolation. The number of active cases in the city stands at 91,035, while there are 50,785 containment zones.
Sharing the oxygen bulletin with the press digitally, Chadha said Delhi received only 577 metric tonnes of oxygen from the Centre on May 6. On May 5 Delhi had received 730 metric tonnes of oxygen.
"Control and management of all Oxygen Generation Plants should be handed over to military or paramilitary forces for safety and smooth functioning of the plants," Vij said in a tweet.
Nine oxygen concentrators were seized during a raid at a restaurant in the Khan Market area of Delhi.
Normal life remained affected in many areas in Jammu and Kashmir on the ninth day on Friday with the imposition of the lockdown in the wake of an alarming surge in coronavirus cases
The Supreme Court on Friday said the Karnataka High Court order for the supply of 1,200 MT oxygen is reasonable and the High Court cannot remain silent when people are dying.
The Supreme Court on Friday put its foot down stating that 700 metric tonnes of medical oxygen have to be supplied to Delhi daily to tide over the Covid-19 crisis.
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Dr the Hon Roosevelt Skerrit, has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convey solidarity and condolences to the many families who have lost loved ones to COVID-19.
The US government, corporates, and the people of America are working together to provide COVID-19 relief to India, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said.
Former Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh has predicted that Covid infections being reported in Delhi will show a perceptible easing up between May 10-15.
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