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“No One Should Die”: Volunteers Provide Oxygen As India’s Covid Tally Nears 2 Crore

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The health ministry said positive cases relative to the number of tests fell on Monday for the first time since at India’s tally of coronavirus infections rose on Monday to just short of 20 million, propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 3,00,000 new cases, as scientists predicted the pandemic could peak in the next couple of days. Total infections since the start of the pandemic have reached 19.93 million, swelled by 3,68,147 new cases over the past 24 hours, while the deaths rose by 3,417 to 2,18,959, health ministry…

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Ashok Leyland To Scale Down Operations At Plants This Month Due To COVID-19 Surge

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In a regulatory filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Ashok Leyland has announced that it will scale down production due to the COVID-19 crisis. The company will operate plants for only 7 to 15 days this month.Commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland will scale down operations at its plants for 7 to 15 days this month. It will shut down the units for the remaining part of the month due to rising COVID-19 cases. The automaker officially announced the same through a regulatory filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).…

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“CT Scan Being Misused, Can’t Detect Mild Covid Cases”: AIIMS Director

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Randeep Guleria said asymptomatic patients with normal oxygen saturation should not go for CT scans. The computerized tomography scan (CT scan) cannot properly detect mild coronavirus cases, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said at a press conference today, as he warned against its misuse. The top doctor, who is also a member of the national pandemic task force, added that blood tests can’t always prove Covid infections as other underlying diseases can also trigger a spike in biomarkers. The CT scan machine takes cross-sectional images of the body using computers and…

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In Delhi, Families Asked To Sign Waivers As Scramble For Oxygen Continues

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“Every hospital has oxygen for the next three to four hours. Until we get proper supply from the centre things will remain like this, More than 10 days into Delhi’s oxygen crisis and it is still family members of patients who are desperately running around to arrange supply because the hospital is running short. “Kal raat 8 baje se Mundka ke oxygen plant par khada tha. Tab jaa kar abhi thodi der pehle ₹ 50,000 me ek cylinder mila. Jab sab kuch hamein hi karna hai toh sarkaar kya kar rahi hai?…

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Dilip Kumar discharged from hospital post routine check-up

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 Legendary actor Dilip Kumar has been discharged from a hospital here two days after he was admitted for a regular health check-up, his wife and veteran actor Saira Banu said. The 98-year-old actor was admitted to the suburban Khar-based Hinduja Hospital on Friday afternoon. “We just came home (from the hospital). Everything is fine. Keep sahab (Kumar) in your prayers,” Banu told PTI on Sunday afternoon. Earlier in the day, Banu said all the tests have been conducted by the team of doctors and the actor is doing fine. “Sahab…

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Delhi HC directs hospitals to give info on daily admissions, discharges of COVID patients; says choking of beds happening

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The Delhi High Court Saturday directed all hospitals in the national capital to provide information on daily admissions and discharge of COVID-19 patients and of those admitted for over 10 days, since April 1. A concern was raised in the court regarding optimal utilisation of ICU and oxygenated beds and ICU beds in hospitals and nursing homes across Delhi. A bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, which held a four-hour-long special hearing on a holiday on various issues relating to the COVID-19 situation, said it appears there is…

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Will try to keep soft interest rate regime as long as possible: SBI chief

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State Bank of India (SBI) will try to keep the interest rates benign as long as possible with a view to supporting the economic growth, its chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara has said. On the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 on non-performing assets of the bank, the SBI chief said that as the lockdown was not pan-India, one will have to wait and watch to assess its impact on the banking sector. Observing that multiple variables including inflation have a bearing on the interest rates, he said, “our effort…

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Indiana’s Sikh community honours victims of FedEx mass shooting

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Sikhs in the US state of Indiana have held a memorial service to honour the eight people, including four community members, who were killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility last month. Brandon Scott Hole, 19, a former worker at the Indianapolis FedEx facility, killed eight people on April 15 before killing himself. Four of those killed were Sikhs, including three women. The memorial service on Saturday was opened with ardaas, a Sikh prayer. We are so thankful to everyone who came together to attend and help put…

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Govt to set up temporary hospitals with 10,000 oxygenated beds near industrial units

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The government expects to make 10,000 oxygenated beds available in a short period of time by making temporary hospitals near industrial units which produce oxygen of requisite purity to boost the supply of the life-saving gas to fight COVID-19. Following multiple meetings held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday to review the COVID-19 situation, a statement said the government HAS also explored the feasibility of conversion of existing nitrogen plants to produce oxygen, and various such potential industries where the existing nitrogen plants may be spared for production of…

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South Asians In UK At Greater Risk In Second Covid Wave: Study

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The study published in the medical journal Lancet accounted for a large number of explanatory variables such as household size, social factors and health conditions across all ethnic groups and at different stages of COVID-19, from testing to mortality. Minority ethnic groups in general and South Asians, in particular, had a higher risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of COVID-19 related hospitalisations, intensive care (ICU) admissions and deaths during the second wave of the pandemic in the UK compared to the first, according to a new observational study of…

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