Officials of several private hospitals in the national capital appeared to be seeking help to replenish their medical oxygen stock as the lives of a large number of patients suffering from Covid-19 are hanging in the balance due to lack of life. Dr. Pankaj Solanki of the 50-bed Dharamvir Solanki Hospital in Rohini said that he is tired of the SOS call (lifesaving message) and is “feeling desperate”. He said, “Most of the time there is a crisis (of oxygen).
Now it is becoming difficult to arrange for ten patients. ”Many people have approached social media to support hospitals. Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chaddha said that the metropolitan government has allotted four D-type oxygen cylinders to the hospital from Rajghat Response Point this afternoon.
We have rushed 10 D-type oxygen cylinders from our SOS reserves to IBS hospital in Lajpat Nagar, which would help them tide over the crisis. Sincerely hope that with the intervention of judiciary, the Centre will finally be charitable enough to give Delhi its share of oxygen #SOShttps://t.co/QHUZXfElLO
He tweeted, “We will leave no stone unturned to address every lifesaving message. But the Delhi government is also imposing SOS (Call for Survival Message). Please supply the oxygen allocated to us. “Sudhanshu Banakata, Executive Director at Batra Hospital said that they are planning to reduce the number of beds further. Batra Hospital on Sunday stopped recruiting patients.
At the hospital in South Delhi, 12 Kovid-19 patients, including a senior doctor, were killed on Saturday afternoon due to the depletion of the medical oxygen facility for about 80 minutes. “We have reduced the number of beds from 307 to 276,” he said. Considering the consumption of oxygen, we will reduce it to 220.
The second wave of Corona in the country has been unabated. Lack of oxygen, increasing strength of the virus, and rapidly deteriorating health systems have created a frightening situation in the country. Meanwhile, the coronavirus is rapidly changing its form. The coronavirus is becoming more deadly. In the past, another new form of the corona has emerged in the country. It was named the Triple Mutant Variant of Corona. The triple mutant variant of coronavirus has also started spreading in the country. Due to its appearance for the first time in West Bengal, it is also being called the ‘Bengal variant’.
Triple mutant virus
Earlier, the Double Mutant Variant of Corona was found in Maharashtra. Apart from this, cases of UK, Brazil, and South African variants have also been reported in the country. Scientists believe that the huge increase in new cases of infection worldwide, including India, is due to new variants of the virus. In such a situation, it is important to know what is the triple mutant variant of the corona, how deadly it is, and whether the vaccine is effective against it.
What is the triple mutant variant of coronavirus?
As the name suggests, this is a form of the virus in which not one or two, but three times changed. Research is currently being done on this, but it is feared that changing such forms of the virus can be very dangerous. Scientists have named the triple mutant variant B.1.618. This new variant of the coronavirus has been detected in West Bengal. It is a combination of three different strains of the virus or it can be understood that the three forms of the virus together have taken a new form. That is, three different strains of the coronavirus have combined into a new variant. There have been some cases of triple mutants infected in Maharashtra, Delhi, and Bengal.
triple mutant variant of coronavirus
Triple mutants are smarter!
Initial investigations suggest that the genetic variant found in it is much smarter and can also attack the bodies of people who have already had antibodies in their bodies. According to the scientists, the study will only get information about how deadly or contagious the triple mutant variant of the coronavirus is. Earlier studies found that the double mutant variant of the corona is not only spreading rapidly, but it is also engulfing children. Double mutants were found to be more severe pathogens. However, triple mutant variants are still being studied. Only then something can be said.
How dangerous are new forms of corona?
It has been feared that the new variant of the virus may be very dangerous to take new forms of the virus repeatedly. Professor Madhukar Pai in the Department of Epidemiology at McGill University has said that it is a much more transitive variant. This is making a lot of people sick very quickly. The delay in the detection of double mutants is probably due to such a rapid increase in new cases. According to him, the more the virus spreads, the more it gets into the mutation and becomes its own form. A few days ago in India, cases of double mutants were reported in Maharashtra and Punjab. Now cases of triple mutants have been found in Bengal along with these two states. This means that the virus is rapidly changing its form.
Both vaccines work on double and triple mutants.
It is a matter of relief that both the vaccines available in the country (Covishield and Covaxine) are proving effective on them. This was said by Saumitra Das, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics. In a webinar organized on genome sequencing of coronavirus, Das said, double and triple mutants are colloquial terms but in reality, they are only B1.617 variants of coronavirus. They are similar in some respects. They have symptoms resembling each other.
With the announcement of the lockdown in Delhi, there is a huge crowd at the liquor shops. People coming here are buying not one, not two, but full cartons of beer and liquor. Regardless of the area, everywhere, there is an increasing crowd on liquor contracts. Long lines are visible in front of the liquor store. Let me tell you that a similar scene was seen in Delhi last year when something was relaxed in the lockdown and liquor shops were allowed to open.
Delhi: People gather in large numbers outside a liquor shop in Khan Market; social distancing norms flouted.
Lockdown to be imposed in the national capital from 10pm tonight to 6am next Monday (26th April). pic.twitter.com/Fq1iNGJo1d
At the same time, a woman was seen standing at a liquor shop in Geeta Colony. When asked why have you come, they said that injection will not benefit, it will benefit alcohol, I will not be affected by drugs, will be affected by Peg.
#WATCH Delhi: A woman, who has come to purchase liquor, at a shop in Shivpuri Geeta Colony, says, "…Injection fayda nahi karega, ye alcohol fayda karegi…Mujhe dawaion se asar nahi hoga, peg se asar hoga…" pic.twitter.com/iat5N9vdFZ
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced a six-day lockdown from 10 am on Monday night to 5 am on Monday, in view of the rapidly increasing cases of coronavirus and the burden on the health system due to them. Addressing an online press conference, Kejriwal said that the number of daily cases of Covid-19 has remained around 25,500 in the last few days in Delhi and the burden on the health system has increased a lot.
The Chief Minister said that the number of coronavirus patients is increasing in Delhi, there is a severe shortage of medicines, beds, ICU, oxygen, so there is a need for a lockdown to prevent the health system from collapsing. Kejriwal said that it was not easy to take the decision to impose a lockdown.
The Delhi government has taken a major decision amid rising cases of coronavirus. It has been decided to impose a night curfew in Delhi. There will be a night curfew from 10 pm to 5 am. No decision has been taken regarding the lockdown. However, the Delhi government has been consistently denying the lockdown. The night curfew in Delhi will continue till 30 April.
Night curfew imposed in Delhi from 10 pm to 5 am with immediate effect till 30th April, in the wake of #COVID19 situation: Delhi Government pic.twitter.com/V3WufATG77
Let us tell you that for the last four-five days, around four thousand consecutive cases of coronavirus are coming to Delhi. On Monday, 3,548 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Delhi on Monday, while 15 people died due to this infection. The Health Department of Delhi gave this information. In the last few weeks, the infection rate has increased to 5.54 percent due to the rapid increase in cases of Covid-19.
On Friday, 3594 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Delhi, which is the highest this year. Also, 14 more people died due to infection in the metropolis, taking the total number of dead to 11,050. This information was given by the Health Department of the metropolis. A bulletin of the Health Department stated that the rate of infection has gone up to 4.11 percent as against 3.57 a day earlier. On Thursday, 2790 cases were reported in Delhi, while 1819 cases were registered on Wednesday.
Delhi reports 3,594 new COVID19 cases and 14 deaths in the last 24 hours; case tally 6,68,814 pic.twitter.com/LIHK9sxZ9k
The rate of infection was 2.71 percent on Wednesday. According to the bulletin, the total number of infected people in the metropolis on Friday increased to 6,68,814. So far, over 6.45 lakh people have recovered from the infection. According to the latest bulletin, 14 more people died from the infection, taking the death toll to 11,050. According to the bulletin, the number of under-treated patients has gone up to 11,994 as against 10,498 a day earlier. The bulletin states that a total of 87,505 probes were conducted a day earlier, including 54,898 RT-PCR probes and 32,607 rapid antigen probes.
