Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No.APENG/2018/764698 Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 11 Published From ASIAN SHARES SLIDE AS VIRUS HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW MAHA MESS DUE TO BLOCKED SUN RISES IN CHENNAI BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH VOHRA REPORT ANNEXURES CASTS SHADOW OVER RECOVERY BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 157 VIJAYAWADA, THURSDAY APRIL 22 , 2021; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable PRABHAS GOES INTO SELF-QUARANTINE { Page 12 } www.dailypioneer.com DELHI GOVT ‘LOOTED' OXYGEN TANKER INDIA’S O2 EXPORT ROSE OVER 700% TOP DELHI HOSPITALS GET OXYGEN PM IGNORED CRISIS TO HIDE LACK FROM PANIPAT: HARYANA MINISTER IN JAN 2021 VS 2020 AMID PANDEMIC SUPPLY AFTER HC PULLS UP CENTRE OF FORESIGHT: PRASHANT KISHOR aryana minister Anil Vij on Wednesday n the huge surge in the second wave of Covid fter an acute oxygen shortage in Delhi oll strategist Prashant Kishor who is alleged that a tanker carrying medical that has seen more cases of breathlessness hospitals was flagged in court and looking after the Trinamool Hoxygen for COVID patients in Iand a demand for oxygen, the oxygen Athrough appeals by politicians, PCongress' election strategy in hospitals, which was going from Panipat exports from India doubled, government data including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, West Bengal on Tuesday accused to Faridabad, was ''looted'' by the Delhi reveals. Between April 2020 and January some of the city's biggest medical Prime Minister Narendra Modi of government and said all oxygen tankers 2021, India exported over 9,000 metric facilities received a late night refill ignoring the COVID-19 crisis to hide will now move with a police escort. Vij tonnes of oxygen. In financial year 2020, yesterday. Oxygen tankers arrived late on his lack of understanding and fore- also said given the increased demand for only 4,500 metric tonnes of oxygen were Tuesday at some of these places, including sightedness. "ModiGovt handling of oxygen due to a surge in coronavirus cases, exported but inexplicably, it was doubled since. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Guru Teg crisis: #1: ignore problem to hide lack Haryana can spare the supply for others only From January 2020, when India was exporting Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, which were merely of understanding & foresightedness #2: after the state meets its own demand. ''Yesterday, 352 metric tonnes of oxygen, the exports increased hours away from running out of stock. Delhi's suddenly take control, use bluff & bluster to one of our oxygen tankers was going from Panipat to supply to by a staggering 734 percent in January 2021. India exported 2,193 biggest COVID-19 facility, the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan claim victory #3: if problem persists, pass it on to others #4: hospitals in Faridabad. When it was passing through Delhi, the metric tonnes of oxygen in December - a 308 percent increase Hospital, received 10 tonnes of supplies last night. The hospital when situation improves, return with Bhakts'' army to take tanker was looted by the Delhi government,” Vij said. compared to 538 metric tonnes in December 2019. administration said these stocks would suffice for now. credit," Kishor tweeted. AP needs over Rs 3,000 crore 24 Covid patients die as oxygen line leaks just to procure vaccines for all PNS n NASHIK/MUMBAI tion immediately shifted dura cylinders from other facilities in At least 24 Covid-19 patients on the city to help the patients at the NAVEENA GHANATE ventilator support died on Zakir Hussain Hospital. n HYDERABAD Wednesday due to an interrupted According to local officials, the supply of medical oxygen at a civic- oxygen leakage was noticed around The cash-strapped Andhra Pradesh Two lakh vax run hospital at Nashik in 12.30 pm, following which hospi- Government would have to rake up doses reach AP, Maharashtra caused by the leakage tal authorities were alerted. dProviding water for around Rs 3,000 crore if it wants to of the gas from a storage plant, offi- Hospital officials in turn con- protect its residents aged 18 years cials said. tacted municipal commissioner agriculture: from and over just to procure vaccines state hires docs A senior civic official said of the Kailash Jadhav seeking technical rhetoric to action to inoculate them. PNS n VIJAYAWADA 150 patients admitted to the hos- help to stop the leakage, they said. The new vaccine strategy pital, 24 were on ventilator support Mandhare said a private compa- unveiled by the Central The State Government on at the time of the incident while the ny looks after the maintenance of Government places the financial Wednesday received two lakh rest were on oxygen support. the oxygen storage tank located on burden on the states which are Covishield vaccine doses from "As per the current information, the premises of the hospital. 2 already reeling under the stress of Pune's Serum Institute of India. 24 people have died due to the "We have given all the informa- pandemic. The vaccine stocks reached interrupted supply of oxygen at the tion to the government. As far as As per UIDAI data, as of Gannavaram airport from where Zakir Hussain municipal hospital. the oxygen supply is concerned, December 31, 2020, Andhra they will be dispatched to vac- The patients were on ventilators as the NMC has received dura cylin- Pradesh has 3.84 crore people who AP inches towards 10K-cases mark; 38 more die cination points across the state. well as on oxygen supply, which got ders from places where consump- are aged 18 years and over. PNS n VIJAYAWADA after September 12. This has The vaccination doses will be interrupted after the leakage in the tion is less. Oxygen will be supplied This means the state has to pro- pushed the gross positives up to administered through PHCs, oxygen supply tank," district col- to the patients from these cylin- cure 7.68 crore doses as one person The coronavirus spread is peak- 9,86,703. Also, 3,359 patients CHCs, area hospitals and desig- lector Suraj Mandhare told ders," he said. has to get two shots to be fully vac- ing once again to last September recovered from the infection, nated private hospitals. reporters. cinated. As on April 20, the state levels, as AP reported close to taking the total to 9,18,985, The state government on He said the municipal corpora- 2 has administered 43.55 lakh doses. 10,000 fresh Covid-19 cases on according to the latest bulletin. Wednesday through a release has The state needs to procure 7.25 Wednesday and also recorded the The toll rose to 7,510 after 38 informed that it was hiring doc- crore more doses. highest number of 38 fatalities more Covid-19 infected people tors for remote tele-consultation. If we take the prices announced after six-and-a-half months. succumbed in 24 hours, it said. Interested can register through by Serum Institute of India as The number of active cases Srikakulam, which on http://dashboard.Covid19.ap.gov baseline i.e. Rs 400 per dose for the crossed the 60,000 mark to February 15 seemed poised to .in/doctor-registrationform/. state government, without vaccine 60,208, the highest after become a coronavirus-free dis- The doctor will have to eval- wastage and without private inter- September 28. trict with just five active cases, uate callers on toll-free No. 104 vention, the state has to shell out Rs From 39,619 tests, 9,716 fresh now reported 1,444 new cases, the for Covid-19 symptoms, do vir- ‘Try to implement pub- 2,900 crore only to procure the vac- positives turned out in the state highest in a day in the state after tual triaging and offer advice on lic policies to make cines. This does not include the in the 24 hours ending 9 am on more than seven months. further course of action like hos- country self-reliant’ supply-chain expenses that will Wednesday, the highest in a day 2 pital admission, testing and only increase the financial burden. medical advice with or with However, if the state decides to would come to Rs 1,500 crore. It of its population was inoculated our prescription. inoculate at least 50 percent of pop- may be mentioned here that Israel with the second dose of vaccine. 2 5 ulation to get herd immunity, this went mask-free after more than half 2 N440K found to cause re-infection US cop found n ‘Immune escape' of N440K found in Kurnool man guilty of killing Maha to get 100 tonnes SNV SUDHIR Genome sequencing of the virus George Floyd n VIJAYAWADA from the re-infected patient from PNS n WASHINGTON Kurnool also established that while of oxygen from RINL While it has been established that the patient was asymptomatic A US grand jury has found for- a new variant that causes Covid-19 when infected the first time, in the mer Minneapolis police officer PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM Covid-19 patients, they said. - the N440K - is prevalent in the re-infection episode he had shown Derek Chauvin guilty on all three The Air Separation Plant (ASP) southern states, particularly in symptoms. charges he faced over the custo- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, in RINL-Vizag Steel has five units both the Telugu states, it's now Genome sequencing was done dial death of African-American which runs a 7.3 million tonnes per of oxygen extraction plants, of emerged that the same variant can by the researchers at Virus Research George Floyd last year, a chilling annum steel plant here, will sup- which three are of 550 tonnes and cause re-infection.