Sakshi Dayal

According to police officials, the father and son have been identified as 29-year-old Atul and his 58-year-old father Virendra, both residents of Sector-75 in Faridabad.

As per the police, the accused had been selling cylinders worth Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 for Rs 45,000.

As per the system, patients or their relatives would have to register for the cylinder via a link provided on the administration’s website.

According to the district health bulletin, Gurgaon is inching closer to the 40,000-mark in terms of active cases, with 3,037 new cases being recorded on Monday. There are 37,244 active cases in the district.

During a meeting he chaired to discuss the Covid situation in Gurgaon late Sunday evening, Khattar had spoken of complaints he had received about high rates being charged for ambulances and had directed officials to fix rates for private ambulances as well.

According to data compiled from the district health bulletin, a total of 27,358 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in Gurgaon last week (between April 26 and May 2), in comparison to the 21,559 cases that were reported in the week before.

Manohar Lal Khattar chaired a meeting with officials on Sunday to discuss the Covid situation in the district.

Haryana home minister Anil Vij also put out a tweet following the incident on Sunday morning, stating “the entire organisation has received a great shock” on the death of Gaurav Jindal and his friend.

According to police officials, the accused have been identified as Chetan Kapoor, the senior security assistant from Punjab who resides in Aya Nagar, Nitin Josh, the nursing staff supervisor, who hails from Kerala and was residing in Gurgaon’s Sector 52, and Josh’s wife, Leema Umen.

Most recently, Gujjar tried to extort money from the manager of a company in Palam Vihar and, to create fear, also got shots fired at him.

The order directs that the facility will also need to be linked to the surveillance team (IDSP) and an ambulance provider, and must have an “oversight mechanism through video camera monitoring” or through guards to ensure that admitted patients do not leave the facility.

On Saturday morning, Dr Sourojit Gupta, Head of Neonatology at the hospital, said the hospital, which had six babies in the NICU – two on ventilator and four on CPAP with oxygen support – were “running out of oxygen”.

From the call centre, officials said, a call would be made to the recipient to determine if they still need the oxygen, in which case the cylinder would be refilled, otherwise the recipient would be asked to return the cylinder “so that it can be given to another needy patient”.

According to officials, in “the next one week or ten days”, around 100 beds will be set up in the city by Hero Motocorp, which has started setting up a temporary hospital with this capacity.

Three hospitals in the city — Mayom Hospital, Kathuria Hospital and Pushpanjali Hospital — on Wednesday complained of persisting oxygen shortage, with two of them appealing to the administration for help, claiming to have only a few minutes of supply left.

The hospital is being set up at a time when Faridabad is seeing a massive surge in Covid cases, with more than 1,000 new cases emerging everyday. At present, there are 10,967 active Covid cases in the district.

“Apart from oxygen, this isolation centre is also equipped with other essential facilities, including meals for the personnel,” said Sube Singh, PRO of Faridabad Police.

A mobile medical unit, ambulance service, and 24X7 helpline will also be set up for shifting patients from the Covid care centre to the hospital, said officials.

Team to ensure “equitable distribution as per requirement” and also post an officer each at points of distribution.

Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon and real estate firm M3M will be working together to add more oxygen beds to the existing stock in the city.

According to officials, doctors, nurses, MBBS students as well as retired government doctors, private doctors, and those retired from the Armed Forces Medical Services can volunteer to offer their services as part of this initiative.

Haryana Chief Minister also directed the MSME Director and Industries Director to ensure that oxygen prepared for industries in industrial oxygen plants is converted to liquid medical oxygen and given for use for Covid patients “so that there is no lack of oxygen”.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said there are no plans for a lockdown in the state

As of 10.30 am on Monday, there was only one vacant ICU bed in the district and no vacant ventilator beds.