Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], May 9 (ANI): Amid rising cases of coronavirus infections across the state, the International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Siliguri has started distributing food among COVID-19 patients.
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): A company-wise supply plan of Remdesivir, a key drug used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, has been issued to states and union territories, informed the Central government.
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): India thanked American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on Saturday for gifting another 25,600 vials of Remdesivir, which is used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Chikmagalur (Karnataka) [India], May 7 (ANI): As India health infrastructure crumbles amid the massive spike of coronavirus cases, 24 COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Karnataka's Chickmagalur were asked to be ready to shift due to an oxygen shortage on Thursday.
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): A 7-seater aircraft of the Madhya Pradesh government carrying a stock of anti-viral drug Remdesivir for COVID-19 patients crash landed at Gwalior airport on Thursday evening, informed a government official.
Srikakulam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 6 (ANI): An non-governmental organisation (NG), run by former MLA and Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leader Piriya Sairaj, donated two ambulances with oxygen kits for COVID-19 patients in Ichchapuram assembly constituency.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 6 (ANI): Due to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients and shortage of oxygen, lives of several coronavirus patients admitted at AIIMS Rishikesh was saved on Tuesday night by shifting them to another ward and oxygen was arranged from BHEL Haridwar.
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Amid an acute shortage of medical oxygen in the national capital, the Delhi government has set up a portal on its official website to streamline the distribution of oxygen to COVID-19 patients in home isolation, non-COVID hospitals, nursing homes and ambula
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 6 (ANI): In view of the increasing requirements of facilities for critical COVID-19 patients, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is setting up a 750-bedded makeshift COVID hospital at Banaras Hindu University premises.
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], May 6 (ANI): As COVID cases continue to rise and put an increasing amount of pressure on healthcare infrastructures, the Indian Railways and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) have converted its 19 coaches into isolation wards, an official said on Wednesday.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 5 (ANI): The government of Karnataka has appointed a commission of Inquiry, which includes retired judge of High Court Justice B A Patil, to probe into the deaths of COVID-19 patients reportedly due to oxygen shortage at District Hospital, Chamarajanagar on
Hubballi (Karnataka) [India], May 5 (ANI): As many as five patients suffering from Covid-19 and under intensive care at Shri Bhanji D Khimji Lifeline Hospital died on Tuesday allegedly due to shortage of oxygen.