With crematoriums inundated, bodies waiting in long queues and ambulances charging hefty sums, North DMC Mayor assigns more hearse vans for cremation  The North Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayor Jai Prakash told Patriot 13 hearse vans have been ordered to take bodies to cremation grounds. One van will be deputed for each cremation site specifically to […]

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Owing to shortage of availability of beds in the city, Covid patients often are left with no option but to opt for home isolation packages  As on April 26, there are 52,733 people with Covid-19 in home isolation in Delhi. The city reported 20,201 cases in the last 24 hours, it has in fact seen […]

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From NGOs to social media influencers – these good samaritans have been working day and night to fight the Covid crisis in the Capital city “We are not giving or refilling oxygen cylinders. We are asking people to come here at the Indirapuram Gurudwara along with the patient in their car and we will provide […]

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The Delhi High Court Thursday observed that the COVID-19 situation in the national capital has turned precarious with many hospitals running out of oxygen and directed the Centre to ensure the gas is supplied to the city as per the planned allocation and without any hindrances. “As it stands, we all know that this country […]

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Several NGOs, organisations or volunteers in Delhi, some via social media, are offering food delivery service to those Covid-19 patients quarantined at home. Humanity, it seems, isn’t dead India is in the grip of a second wave of Covid- 19. In these trying times, when cases are spurring and the death toll is rising everywhere, […]

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Patriot speaks to nurses, who reveal how symptoms of the new Covid strain are worse this time – with hospitals in the Capital city short staffed, and many contracting the virus A couple of days earlier a video showing two Covid-19 patients sharing a bed at Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital bore […]

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Ganga Ram hospital shows 14 beds available on Delhi government’s Corona dashboard, but when Patriot calls to check – the officials say none are available, and claims 500 people on waiting list Delhi is facing an acute shortage of Covid-19 ICU beds. While the Delhi government has its website “Corona jantasamvad” where one can check […]

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With Covid-19 cases reaching its all time high in India, labourers and blue collar workers in Delhi are going back home, again It’s April 2021, but nothing much has changed. With Covid cases surging, migrant labourers are vulnerable, facing the horrors of last year yet again — apprehensions about another lockdown is forcing them to […]

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