Since January, nearly 10 per cent of Indians have received one dose, but only around 1.5 per cent have received both, although the country is one of the world’s biggest producers of vaccines. On Saturday, India said all adults 18 and over could get shots. The navy deployed 200 nursing assistants in civilian hospitals, a government statement said. The military also called up 600 doctors who had retired in the past few years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government also gave emergency financial powers to the army set up new quarantine facilities and hospitals and buy equipment. The army opened its hospitals to civilians in a desperate bid to control the massive humanitarian crisis. New Delhi recorded 412 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest since the pandemic started. The court said it would start contempt proceedings. 'We can’t have people dying,' said Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Patil. Enough is enough,' said New Delhi High Court, adding it would start punishing government officials if supplies of oxygen allocated to hospitals were not delivered. With the government unable to maintain a steady supply of oxygen, several hospital authorities sought a court intervention in the Indian capital where a lockdown has been extended by a week to contain the wave of infections. The Times of India newspaper reported another 16 deaths in two hospitals in southern Andhra Pradesh state, and six in a Gurgaon hospital on the outskirts of New Delhi because of the oxygen shortage. Twelve COVID-19 patients, including a doctor, on high-flow oxygen, died Saturday at a hospital in New Delhi after it ran out of the supply for 80 minutes, said S.C.L. The government has been using the railroad, the air force and the navy to rush oxygen tankers to worst-hit areas where overwhelmed hospitals are unable to cope with an unprecedented surge in patients gasping for air. Experts believe both figures are an undercount. It also reported 3,689 additional deaths, bringing the total to 215,542. On Sunday, India recorded a slight drop in new infections with 392,488 from a high of 401,993 in the previous 24 hours. With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more COVID-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-saving items. Meanwhile, the situation in India remains grim. The launch begins the first of 11 missions necessary to complete, supply and crew the station by the end of next year.Ĭhina’s space program has also recently brought back the first new lunar samples in more than 40 years and expects to land a probe and rover on the surface of Mars later next month. The Tianhe, or 'Heavenly Harmony,' module blasted into space atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan, marking another major advance for the country’s space exploration. China on Thursday launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long term, the latest success for a program that has realized a number of its growing ambitions in recent years The image above shows the Long March-5B Y2 rocket being launched into space in Wenchang, China on Thursday.
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