Raakhi Jagga

A team of engineers from the ventilator manufacturer, BEL, reached Faridkot for repairing the faulty gadgets on Thursday. Five faulty ventilators in Faridokot medical college hospital were repaired during the course of the day.

Punjab Government's data reveals that 22 villages have been included in the list of containment or micro-containment zones because of Covid cases being reported from these villages.

As of today, the Faridkot medical college, which caters to 10 Malwa districts, has only 32 ventilators in working condition.

The first cremation was using this was performed Tuesday at Ramgarhia Shamshanghat, Dholewal. The victim, Uma Pati (60), had succumbed to Covid-19 at Civil Hospital, Ludhiana.

On May 9, the farm leaders came out with a statement that the Kisan Social Army was not a part of SKM movement, reiterating their stand two days later on Tuesday.

NHM workers are demanding regularisation of their pay scales. Most of the employees are on Covid duties and even in vaccination drives in Punjab.

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This poor show is despite the fact that Punjab Health Minister Balbir Sidhu had recently stated that the government has spent Rs 1,000 crore over the past year to upgrade the health infrastructure.

According to locals, four of the five deceased were from the same family, and three of them had tested positive for the virus.

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As Sharma spoke to The Indian Express on Thursday, Ludhiana hospitals had reported over 1,800 deaths out of which around 300 were from outside the district.

Whiles unions had given a call ‘lockdown todo, bazar kholo', but hardly any shops opened during the protest time. Farmer unions were seen staging protests in closed market places.

Ludhiana DC Varinder Kumar Sharma has ordered that all shops in the district can open from 5am till noon from Monday to Friday. Curfew will be imposed in the city after that for all categories of shops, private offices.

Curfew passes need to be issued by administration for office employees commuting on vehicles other than bicycles. Banks, government offices will operate with 50 per cent strength and will be closed on weekends.

This movable trolley, made of iron frame and fire bricks, was first used Wednesday at Dholewal crematorium managed by Ramgarhia Educational Council.

The Covid ward at the Alamgir Gurdwara will cater to level 1 and level 2 Covid patients with each bed being equipped with oxygen concentrators.

Union leaders accused the government of creating panic in the name of second wave.

The Meena Bazar Association, Beopar Mandal Ludhiana staged protest at two different locations Tuesday saying that either Punjab should impose full lockdown or they should allow all kinds of shops to open from 10 am to 5pm.

The benefits of proning, and how it can save lives at a time when liquid oxygen supply and shortage has emerged as one of the major flashpoints between states and the central government.

The state governments of both Punjab and Haryana have imposed limited lockdowns to halt the transmission of the virus.

The diversity in the pool of people testing positive across social and economic strata is proof positive that the virus is sparing no one.

Urging Ludhiana residents to be cautious and to stay at home, Sharma said that the city produces 1,800 cylinders a day, while the consumption is 2800 cylinders.

Sidhu said, "We are just hand-to-mouth in terms of oxygen supply to various hospitals of Punjab. We get around 105 MT oxygen from other states, which is coming in limited quantities. We are trying our best."

A total of 90 patients were placed on ventilators from April 22 to April 28 as compared to 36 between April 15 and April 21.