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Covid-19: Metro services in Noida to remain suspended during weekend curfew

The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) on Monday announced the suspension of its metro operations in the national capital region's Noida and Greater Noida on Saturday and Sunday to discourage passengers' movement during the weekend lockdown amid COVID-19."To discourage passengers movement on curfew days, NMRC has decided not to run any service on the curfew days i.e. Saturday & Sunday. Therefore, NMRC metro services will not be available on these days," said NMRC MD Ritu Maheshwari.Uttar Pradesh is currently witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases. According to official data, the state has recorded 33,574 new COVID-19 cases, 249 deaths, and 26,719 recoveries in the past 24 hours. Currently, there are 3,04,199 active cases in the state.The Uttar Pradesh government has announced a night curfew and weekend lockdown in all districts of the state to curb the surge in the COVID-19 cases across the state.

Covid-19: HC says not in agreement with Centre on availability of oxygen

The Delhi High Court said it was not in agreement with the Centre that there is enough oxygen available to treat seriously ill Covid-19 patients in the national capital

Mumbai may be gaining the upper hand in Covid-19 fight, says expert

Only 3,792 cases were reported in the city on Monday, despite 41,000 tests being conducted to detect the infection, a senior health expert said

It's time people started wearing masks inside their homes too, says govt

Research has shown if no physical distancing measures are followed, one person can infect 406 people in 30 days, says govt

Over 100 oxygen cylinders not refilled in 3 days: Ganga Ram hospital

Raising alarm, the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) on Monday said that it failed to get over 100 oxygen cylinders refilled in three days

Covid-19: Delhi's Ganga Ram receives 4 tons of oxygen on Monday morning

Amid severe oxygen shortage due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) received four tons of oxygen on Monday morning, hospital sources said

Covid-19: Oxygen Express train reaches UP's Lucknow from Jharkhand's Bokaro

In a big respite to cope up with the oxygen shortage in Uttar Pradesh, Indian Railway's 'Oxygen Express', carrying oxygen tankers, reached Lucknow from Jharkhand's Bokaro on Monday morning.Uttar Pradesh is currently witnessing a surge in cases. As per the union health ministry, currently, there are 2,97,616 active cases in the state.The Indian Railways is running 'Oxygen Express' trains and will continue to run them over the next few days to transport liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders across the country. Roll-on-roll-off trucks are being transported on flat wagons by the trains for a quick supply of medical oxygen.The first Oxygen Express train, that left Visakhapatnam on Thursday, arrived in Maharashtra's Nagpur Friday evening with seven tankers carrying the life-saving medical gas.The central government has also restricted the use of liquid oxygen for non-medical purposes with immediate effect with the ministry of home affairs announcing that the use of liquid oxygen will ..

India records biggest single-day spike with 352,991 fresh Covid-19 cases

With 3,52,991 people testing positive for Covid-19 infection in a day, the highest so far, India's total tally of cases has climbed to 1,73,13,163 while active cases have crossed the 2.5 mn mark

Different Strokes in the Second Wave

How the second wave of Covid-19 has been different, why this has eroded states' capacity and triggered a new kind of vaccine politics, and what corrective policy steps are needed now

2 Covid-19 patients die in Andhra Pradesh due to glitch in oxygen supply

Two Covid-19 patients who were on ventilators with high flow oxygen died due to technical issues in supplying the life saving gas during wee hours of Monday, official said

Coronavirus: US to rush vaccine raw materials, anti-Covid supplies to India

In a break from the America First policy, President Joe Biden's administration is working round the clock to immediately send India material needed in the fight against the Covid-19 surge

Start-ups, venture capitalists offer funds to tackle Oxygen scarcity

Amid oxygen shortage and a faltering health system in the country, India is seeing over 300,000 cases daily

Covid-19 crisis: US to release vaccine raw material immediately to India

The US will also urgently send oxygen generation and related supplies to India

Covid-19 second wave: Amazon to airlift over 10,000 oxygen concentrators

The e-commerce giant has joined hands with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation and Pune Platform for Covid-19 Response to airlift over 8000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore

States have no reason to complain about vaccines, says Harsh Vardhan

Ministry says allegation that the government is getting vaccines at a lower price and states are not are patently false

Indian Railways pitches in with Oxygen Express, ferries 150 MT to 2 states

Though just a blip compared with the nearly 6,600 MT medical oxygen produced per day, the Railways has been able to open a pathway from large infrastructure projects to cities

Covid-19: US agrees to send raw materials required by Indian vaccine makers

The United States is also pursuing options to provide India with oxygen generation and related supplies

Covid: RIL in talks to buy tankers for transport of liquid medical oxygen

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases being reported daily in the past few days

Story in numbers: Wasted shots could have vaccinated entire Tripura

In the initial phase, with beneficiaries registering and then not turning up for the vaccine, vials were being discarded to avoid transporting them back to the cold chain

Uttarakhand CM holds all-party meeting to discuss COVID-19 situation

With Uttarakhand reporting a record number of single-day COVID-19 fatalities and cases on Saturday, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat held an all-party meeting here virtually to discuss the situation.