BBC World News

  The hospital has come up with an infrastructure worth  ₹ 84 lakh for setting up the mobile plant, which would not only cater to its oxygen needs but of other medical institutions too.       With the entire infrastructure in place, Government Rajindra Medical College and Hospital is awaiting the Centre’s nod to order mobile oxygen generation plant from Germany. The hospital has come up with a proper infrastructure worth  ₹ 84 lakh for setting up the plant, which would not only cater to its oxygen needs but of other medical institutions too. “We will make the plant operational in two days if we get the required equipment for producing oxygen as all other prerequisites are already in place at the hospital,” said hospital’s medical superintendent Dr HS Rekhi. Notably, a similar plant will be set up at Government Medical College and Hospital, Amritsar. He added that the proposed plant will be able to produce 20,000 litres of oxygen. Meanwhile, one of the offic...

https://link-to.net/244614/LinkVertise   The total for cases recorded throughout Friday is based on official figures at 1000 GMT on Saturday.         Paris:  A daily record of more than 893,000 Covid-19 cases has been recorded worldwide, mainly due to a surge of the virus in India, according to an AFP count on Saturday. The total for cases recorded throughout Friday is based on official figures at 1000 GMT on Saturday. The previous daily high was some 819,000 cases on January 8. More than a third of the infections occurred in India, which announced 332,730 new cases on Friday and another 346,786 on Saturday, also a record for a single country since the start of the pandemic. Over the course of a week, more than 5.5 million cases were recorded worldwide, including almost two million in India. India has also recorded a record 2,624 deaths over the previous 24 hours. The pandemic has killed nearly 1,90,000 people in total in the country. Other countries traili...

  COVID-19 India: In predicting that the active cases would go up by about 10 lakh by mid-May before sliding, scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Hyderabad applied the 'Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach'' (SUTRA) model. New Delhi:  The ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India may peak between May 11-15 with 33-35 lakh total 'active'' cases and decline steeply by the end of May, according to a mathematical module devised by IIT scientists. On Friday, India saw a single-day rise of 3,32,730 (3.32 lakh) COVID-19 infections and 2,263 fatalities with 24,28,616 (24.28 lakh) active cases. In predicting that the active cases would go up by about 10 lakh by mid-May before sliding, scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Hyderabad applied the 'Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach'' (SUTRA) model. The scientists also said Delhi, Haryana,...

  The World Bank President said that it is estimated that the increases in child mortality to persist in the coming years.   Washington:  The novel coronavirus pandemic will likely drive up child mortality rates in developing countries by slightly less than half of the current rate, World Bank President David Malpass said on Monday. "Our early estimates suggest a potential increase of up to 45 percent in child mortality because of health service shortfalls and reduction in access to food," Mr Malpass said during a virtual discussion ahead of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings next week. Mr Malpass said the World Bank estimates the increases in child mortality to persist in the coming years. The World Bank President also said the difficulties in administering education amid pandemic can lead to significant issues for the developing countries in the future. "Since the outbreak, more than 1.6 billion children in developing countries have been out...