8 am: Music composer Shravan Kumar Rathod died on Thursday evening due to coronavirus, ANI reports. The 66-year-old had recently tested p...
8 am: Music composer Shravan Kumar Rathod died on Thursday evening due to coronavirus, ANI reports. The 66-year-old had recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus and was hospitalised in a critical condition. Rathod was a part of the popular composer duo Nadeem-Shravan.
7.50 am: The Jharkhand government has also promised to provide free coronavirus vaccines to all above 18 years, ANI reports.
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7.45 am: The Punjab and Himachal Pradesh governments announce that they would provide free vaccines for all above 18 from May 1, The Indian Express reports.
7.40 am: The oxygen shortage continues to worsen as two hospitals in Gautam Buddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh complain of a crunch, PTI reports. The two private hospitals – Kailash Hospital in Sector 27 and Prakash Hospital in Sector 31 – have around 600 Covid patients between them. They said that their resources were already overstretched and that they had only some hours of oxygen supply.
“In such hospitals, no new admissions are being taken,” Chief Medical Officer Deepak Ohri says. “They will resume once oxygen supply is normalised.”
7.35 am: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi discontinues the testing of asymptomatic health care workers due to shortage of...
