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Jul

2021

Europe sends aid to Tunisia

ITALY, Spain and Switzerland have sent medical aid to Tunisia which is facing its worst health crisis since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with a sharp rise in deaths, hospitals filled to capacity and a lack of oxygen supplies. Deaths from COVID-19 exceeded 150 per day during the past week in Tunisia, prompting countries including Qatar, Algeria, the UAE, Morocco, Turkey and Kuwait to send aid. Egypt and Saudi Arabia opened an air bridge earlier this week, sending at least 8 planes of aid. France said this week it also planned to send about one million vaccination doses and…

Apr

2021

By The African Mirror

Medical supplies flow into India as COVID-19 deaths near 200,000

WORLD

SHILPA JAMKHANDIKAR, RUPAM JAIN and SANJEEV MIGLANI VITAL medical supplies poured into India yesterday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. Supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters partner ANI, while France is sending oxygen generators able to provide 250 patients with a year's supply of the gas, its embassy said. Even China, locked in a year-long military standoff with India on their disputed Himalayan border, said it was trying to get medical supplies to its…

Apr

2021

By The African Mirror

Indian hospitals turn away patients in COVID-19 ‘tsunami’

WORLD

SANJEEV MIGLANI and MANOJ KUMAR OVERWHELMED hospitals in India begged for oxygen supplies on Saturday as the country's coronavirus infections soared again overnight in a "tsunami" of disease, setting a new world record for cases for the third consecutive day. Max Healthcare, which runs a network of hospitals in north India, tweeted that it had less than two hours of oxygen left while Fortis Healthcare, another big chain, said it was suspending new admissions in Delhi. "We are running on backup, waiting for supplies since morning," Fortis said. India is in the grip of a rampaging second wave of the…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

Nigeria warns on oxygen supplies, dysfunctional labs in tackling COVID

COVID-19

NIGERIA faces oxygen supply challenges to treat coronavirus patients in parts of the country and unacceptable laboratory delays as case numbers rose to the highest recorded in a single week, health authorities have revealed. The new warnings from Nigerian officials come as the resurgent virus strikes across much of the world, bringing greater caseloads and hospitalisations. "There is an on-going review of the chain for the supply of medical oxygen for our medical facilities across the nation," said Boss Mustapha, chairman of Nigeria's coronavirus task force, naming the capital of Abuja as an area of concern. Labs' "inability to function…