The tankers had to urgently reach Sri Action Balaji Hospital, where oxygen levels had reached a critical point, but were stuck in a traffic jam, they said.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced a six-day lockdown in Delhi to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases as the city’s health system was stretched to its limits.
The Delhi government on Monday announced a citywide lockdown to curb the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases. The curfew will be effective from Monday night till April 26 morning, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Monday.
These cases against the four airlines — Vistara, Indigo, SpiceJet and Air Asia — have been filed under the Disaster Management Act, they said.
The Delhi government in next 2-3 days will come up with 6,000 beds at Yamuna Sports Complex, Radha Swami Satsang Beas premises and schools. It is also arranging high flow oxygen beds for the patients, Kejriwal added.
The former India under-19 team captain’s mother and uncle are admitted in a private hospital in Rohini, New Delhi with Covid-19.
The management at the spiritual organisation’s centre in Chattarpur confirmed that the facility will be restarted soon.
In view of the curfew imposed by the Govt. for coming weekend for the containment of Covid-19, Metro services will be available with a headway of 15 min across the whole network.
Delhi recorded 16,699 COVID-19 cases and 112 fatalities on Thursday, according to the health department.
Communal violence had broken out in northeast Delhi on February 24 last year leaving at least 53 people dead and around 200 injured. More than 750 cases were registered in the northeast Delhi violence, in which at least 53 people were killed and several others injured.
Warning that conducting the exams may contribute to the large-scale spread of the virus, he said the centres could emerge as major hotspots.
The victim, Manohar Lal, was stabbed multiple times by his 29-year-old son Balwan, who was arrested in connection with the incident, they said.
Interacting with reporters, he also appealed to people to step out of their homes only if necessary and wear masks all the time.
The deceased has been identified as Punit Gupta, a resident of Ganesh Nagar complex in Pandav Nagar, they said.
He further added that at present Delhi’s health system was strong and all government and private hospitals have been strengthened again in view of rising new cases of Covid-19.
Delhi recorded 7,897 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, while 39 more people died due to the coronavirus infection, taking the death toll to 11,235, according to the city health department.
An order issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) said the new rules, along with the night curfew, will stay in place till April 30.
The chief minister further stated there has been a sharp increase in new Covid-19 cases across the nation, including Delhi.
Many universities in Delhi such as Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia University have issued new guidelines to all the students and staff in view of the increasing Covid-19 cases across the national capital in the past few days.
So now couples are mulling a “day marriage”, wedding planners are making a beeline for venues in the neighbouring Noida and Gurgaon, and many hotels-banquets, reading the fine print of the order, are busy answering queries from frantic customers.
Officials of the Government of India, public corporations and Delhi government officials, government agencies involved in essential services such as health and family welfare and medical establishments have been given the exemption.
The city recorded 3,548 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Monday, while 15 more people succumbed to the infection taking the death toll to 11,096, according to the Delhi health department.
Twenty-one more people died due to the disease, the highest since January 1, when an equal number of fatalities were reported.
Khan uploaded a video on social media, in which he said he has submitted a complaint against Narsinghanand.
Cool, northerly winds led to a sharp dip in the minimum temperature in Delhi, said Mahesh Palawat, vice president (Meteorology and Climate Change) at Skymet Weather, a private weather forecasting agency.