Eight Covid patients killed in India hospital fire
India crosses 2 million mark, 500,000 cases recorded in just nine days
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani ordered a probe into the fire incident at a Ahmedabad Covid hospital which claimed eight lives yesterday morning.
The Chief Minister ordered the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Home Sangeeta Singh and ACS Urban Development Mukesh Puri to submit a report within three days.
A major fire in the ICU ward of a private dedicated Covid hospital in Ahmedabad claimed the lives of eight patients, including five men and three women in the wee hours yesterday. The fire broke out in the ICU ward of ‘Shrey hospital’, a dedicated Covid-19 hospital in Navrangpura area in Ahmedabad at around 3am on Thursday.
Two persons were detained yesterday, according to the police. L B Zala, ACP (B-Division) said the hospital’s trustee Bharat Mahant and a ward boy were detained.
2 million cases
India recorded more than 2 million coronavirus cases yesterday, with the countrywide figure standing at 2,006,760. The country is behind Brazil, which has more than 2.8 million cases and the US, which is leading the list with close to 5 million cases.
On July 28, India had recorded more than 1.5 million cases. The new 500,000 cases
came over nine days, with an average of 50,000 fresh cases recorded each day.
The total number of recoveries has jumped to 1,377,384, pushing the recovery rate to 67.62 per cent yesterday, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 2.07 per cent.
A total of 46,121 patients have been discharged in a span of 24 hours.