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Health and family welfare de- Bhubaneswar, May 11: With an aim to partment issued a notification to enhance medical oxygen production to MISERABLY this effect. The testing labs will be meet the rising demand, the Defence set up at the district headquarters Research and Development Organisation of Bhadrak, Boudh, Bargarh, (DRDO) will set up seven medical oxy- Dhenkanal,Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, gen plants in Odisha. ON COVID-19 Jajpur, Kandhamal, Kendrapara, The DRDO is setting up 500 oxygen Khurda, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, plants in the country within three months POST NEWS NETWORK Nuapada, Sonepur and Sundargarh. day. And it is delaying the time for Bhubaneswar is having a high with the help of its indigenous developed Odisha Covid Another district is Rayagada for getting results, the source said. throughput laboratory. technology. Of which, seven will be es- New Delhi, May 11: Amidst which a machine has been ordered At present, the state has 20 Private-run labs are there in tablished in Odisha, CGM of National the rapid surge in COVID- toll up by 18 by the Odisha State Medical RTPCR laboratories of which 13 are Apollo Hospitals, SUM Hospital, Highways Authority of India (NHAI), 19 cases in the state and the BHUBANESWAR: Odisha's Corporation Ltd (OSMCL). government-run and seven are run InDNA Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, GenX Odisha, Ram Prasad Panda, said. government’s efforts to curb COVID-19 caseload Tuesday The approximate cost of the by private organizations. All seven Diagnostics, AMRI Hospitals, The plants will come up in Boudh, its footprints, the Covid pos- rose to 5,54,666 after 9,793 each laboratory will be around state-run medical colleges at Kalinga Institute of Medical Science Cuttack, Bhadrak, Gajapati, Jharsuguda, itivity rate of Odisha stood more people tested positive `1.20 crore. The government has ap- Cuttack, Berhampur, Burla, (KIMS) and Kalinga Hospital Ltd. Nayagarh and Koraput. The NHAI has at 24.4 per cent, more than for the disease, while 18 proved recruitment of staff in- Koraput, Baripada, Balasore and TrueNAT testing facility is there been asked to carry out the civil and elec- the national positivity rate fresh fatalities pushed the cluding one microbiologist and Bolangir have the facility. in 32 healthcare facilities across trical work of the plants while DRDO will of 21 per cent. state's death toll to 2,215, a three lab technicians for each shift Similarly, RTPCR labs are func- the state while only KIMS has a look after technical part, he said. At a presser on the status health department official (eight hours) duty. The move will tioning at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, CB NAAT testing lab. The state Panda said land has been acquired of the pandemic, joint sec- said. Accordingly, the num- not only enhance the daily testing Ispat General Hospital—Rourkela, had tested 46,241 samples for Covid for the plants while the NHAI has al- retary, Union health min- ber of active cases climbed rate but also reduce the time period Institute of Life Sciences— May 10, out of which RTPCR tests ready commenced the civil construc- Once the plants become functional, istry, Lav Agarwal, said 26 to 94,829, he said. Of the now required for testing, official Bhubaneswar, International Centre accounted for 16,717. Though the gov- tion work at two places- Boudh and hospitals can generate oxygen from the on- states have a case positivity 9,793 new cases, 5,534 were sources said. Due to lack of suffi- for Foot and Mouth Disease— ernment has aimed to increase the Cuttack. The oxygen plant is designed site plant instead of depending on other rate of more than 15 per reported from various quar- cient number of RTPCR testing Khurda and Indian Institute of daily testing rate to 50,000, it is yet for a capacity of 1,000 litres per minute sources. It would also be cost-effective for cent. The health ministry antine centres while the rest detected during contact labs, samples collected from vari- Science Education & Research to achieve it. Chief Minister Naveen (LPM). The system can cater for 190 pa- the health centres. The plants would be use- also said that Odisha is tracing. Khurda district ous parts of the state are being (IISER)—Berhampur. Regional ` tients at a flow of 5 LPM and will ful for patients, especially those who are among top five states that Patnaik has sanctioned 20 crore for reported the maximum transported to nearest lab each Medical Research Centre (RMRC), the purpose, an official said. charge 195 cylinders per day. suffering from Covid-19. have been witnessing in- number of new cases at creasing trend of new cases 1511, followed by with 5,908 cases reported Sundargarh at 1,018 and IRREGULAR by MANJUL April 27 to over 10,000 new Cuttack at 641. The health cases May 10. department said, "Regret to FUEL RATES UP AGAIN The Union health min- inform about the demise of O2 crunch kills istry also said that 533 dis- 18 Covid positive patients AGENCIES CITY FUEL PRICES tricts across the country, while under treatment in including 27 from Odisha, hospitals." PETROL ` New Delhi, May 11: Petrol and diesel 92.81 (+0.59) have a case positivity rate of prices Tuesday were hiked for the sixth time DIESEL `90.03 (+0.64) more than 10 per cent. While Goa tops the chart 26 at Goa hosp this month, propelling prices to cross the Fuel prices differ from state to state de- Two Odisha districts with 49.6 per cent of posi- `100-a-litre-mark in places from Nanded in pending on the incidence of local taxes such –Kalahandi and Sambalpur tivity followed by CM BLAMES DEARTH OF OXYGEN TRUCK DRIVERS Maharashtra to Rewa in Madhya Pradesh as VAT and freight charges. Rajasthan have the highest positivity Pondicherry, West Bengal, to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. levies the highest value-added tax (VAT) rate of 46.7 and 46.6 per cent Haryana and Karnataka, AGENCIES Petrol price was hiked by 27 paise a on petrol in the country, followed by Madhya respectively. Similarly, four Odisha stood at the 11th po- litre and diesel by 30 paise per litre, ac- Pradesh. Sri Ganganagar district of districts in the state have a sition with 24.4 per cent pos- Panaji, May 11: Lack of expert cording to a price notification by state- Rajasthan had the costliest petrol and positivity rate between 30 itivity rate. ` It’s better than winning a lottery. drivers manning trucks ferrying owned fuel retailers. The rise took petrol diesel in the country at 102.70 per litre and and 40 per cent – The state has been wit- oxygen has led to the oxygen short- and diesel prices to their highest-ever `95.06 a litre respectively. Also in Rajasthan, Sundargarh 34.2 pc, Angul nessing a surge in new cases He has successfully booked ` a slot for vaccination! age crisis in Goa's top hospital, level across the country. In Delhi, petrol now petrol crossed the 100-mark in Jaisalmer 34 per cent, Khurda 33.3 pc with 5,908 cases reported Goa Medical College, Chief Minister comes for `91.80 per litre and diesel is (`100.71) and Bikaner (`100.70) while it and Bargarh 32.6 per cent. April 27 that went up to Pramod Sawant said Tuesday, even priced at `82.36. This was the sixth increase neared that mark in Barmer (`99.82). As many as 11 districts, 9,793 cases May 11. It said as Health Minister Vishwajit Rane in prices since May 4, when the state- Petrol in several districts of Madhya including Cuttack and Bangalore urban, Chennai, 3 LeT militants killed claimed that 26 persons died within owned oil firms ended an 18-day hiatus Pradesh, including Shahdol (`102.06), Puri, have a positivity rate Ernakulam, Malappuram four hours due to shortage of oxy- in rate revision they observed during as- Rewa (`102.04), Chhindwara (`101.67) and between 20 and 30 per cent and Khurda among others SRINAGAR: Three Lashkar-e- gen at the apex health facility. Rane has urged Bombay HC to sembly elections in states like West Balaghat (`101.98) crossed the physiolog- and 10 districts including are showing a rise in the probe the oxygen shortage Toiba (LeT) militants were killed Rane, who has been at logger- Bengal. The price increase led to petrol ical mark. It neared that mark in Indore Dhenkanal, Kendrapara number of cases. Khurda issue at Goa Medical College in an encounter with security forces heads with Sawant over control of rates crossing the `100-mark in more (`99.90 a litre) and Bhopal (`99.83).