The hostel of Government Nursing College at Uttarakhand’s Sursingh Dhar has been declared a containment zone as its 93 students were declared Covid positive.
Samples of 200 students were taken, and reports of some students are awaited. While 65 students who tested negative for COVID-19 are being sent home. As per the order of District Magistrate Tehri, the hostel has been declared as a containment zone.
Uttarakhand has reported 5084 new Covid cases and 81 related in deaths in the last 24 hours.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday decided to allocate symptomatic Covid-19 patients a bed only post-examination by the medical staff at the patient’s home and had hence issued a new protocol to be followed on admitting Covid-19 patients at hospitals.
According to BMC, all 24 wards have been directed to form a team of 10 medical staff including doctors who will visit patients’ houses and check their parameters in order to understand the type of bed required for admission.
In a statement issued on Friday, the BMC said, “The coordination for the visit of doctors to Covid patient’s home will be done by the respective ward war room. The team of 10 medical staff in each ward will also be provided with a separate ambulance. The visit will be done between 7am and 11pm. However, for the period of 11pm to 7am, the patient will be brought to the nearest jumbo Covid-19 centre and will be tested and admitted, accordingly.”
According to BMC officials, this way, patients will be allotted beds as per their need and medical condition, and not just based on their explanation or narration of their medical condition.
Over 500 doctors and healthcare workers from AIIMS Patna and Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) have been tested Covid positive.
CM Singh, Medical Superintendent told PTI that a total of 384 employees of AIIMS Patna were infected that includes doctors, nurses and sanitization workers.
PMCH Superintendent Dr Indu Sekhar Thakur said more than 125 of its employees have tested positive so far that includes 70 doctors and over 55 nurses and other health workers.
He added that the hospital authorities have arranged separate isolation spaces for its infected employees.
22 Covid patients died on Wednesday at the Zakir Husssain Municipal Hospital in Maharashtra’s Nashik due to interruption of oxygen supply after leakage in an oxygen cylinder.
The oxygen tanker leaked while being filled at the hospital, said authorities.
The district collector said that the patients who dies were on ventilators as well as on oxygen supply.
Maharshtra government ordered an enquiry, with FDA minister Dr Rajendra Shingane calling it an unfortunate incident.
Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope also said that interrupted supply could be linked to the deaths. He said that the government will look into the matter and conduct a thorough inquiry.
A corona patient admitted in New Medical College Hospital of Kota died allegedly due to lack of oxygen supply on Tuesday.
The superintendent of the hospital, Nilesh Jain said, “We faced a 2-5 minute disturbance due to lack of cylinders resulting in the death of a woman. The amount of pressure to operate ventilator had gone down.”
The state health minister Raghu Sharma on Tuesday requested the Centre to ramp up the supply of medical-use oxygen to the state to meet the heightened demand due to the spike in the number of coronavirus cases.
He said the state has adequate number of beds as of now and can raise the number further up to three lakh, but it needs more oxygen to treat coronavirus patients.
India reports a daily high of nearly 3 lakh covid cases on Wednesday. A total of 2,95,041 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours with 2,023 deaths.
This is the highest ever since the beginning of the pandemic.
Total active caseload: 2,157,538
Total vaccination: 13,01,19,310
Gilead’s Remdesivir has been suspended from the WHO list of medicines after several warnings against its use on Covid-19 patients.
Remdesivir has been peddled as potential anti-viral drug for the treatment of Covid-19 for months now as studies showed that it cut time to recovery and was authorized for use in more than 50 countries.
“Yes, we have suspended it from the PQ (prequalification list),” WHO media representative Tarik Jasarevic said in an emailed response to Reuters. “The suspension is a signal to countries that WHO, in compliance with the treatment guidelines, does not recommend countries procure the drug for Covid.”
Delhi is recording a high spike in Covid-19 cases and has reported 28,395 new cases in the last 24 hours.
Total cases: 9,05,541
Total discharges: 8,07,328
Active cases: 85,575
Death toll: 12,638