Jailed AAP leader and Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain who has been arrested in connection with a money laundering case, was on Thursday, May 25, 2023, admitted to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital here after he collapsed in Tihar … Read more
No Covid death in the national capital has gone uncounted, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday, a day after the World Health Organisation estimated that there were 4.7 million (47 lakh) deaths from the virus in India. Covid death data given by the national capital to the Centre is completely authentic and correct, … Read more
Following a four-year-long investigation, the CBI has closed a case against Delhi PWD Minister Satyendar Jain and others related to alleged corruption in the hiring of a creative team for the department, officials said on Thursday. The agency has recently filed its closure report before a special court after failing to gather enough evidence to … Read more
Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister, Delhi had launched bike-ambulance services for East on a pilot basis in 2019 The bike-ambulance facility that launched in February 2019 was discontinued in March 2020; when the pandemic hit the country. The service was launched by the AAP government under Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The reason cited behind the … Read more
If the COVID-19 positivity rate in the national capital stays below 4 per cent for five consecutive days, it would mean Delhi has been successful in combating the pandemic, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday. Interacting with reporters, he also said there is “enough resources for the application as well as storage of vaccine” … Read more
Delhi, which has been reeling under the third wave of coronavirus, has reported a death rate of 1.58 per cent as compared to the national fatality rate of 1.48 per cent. Experts attribute the high number of daily COVID-19 deaths in the national capital to a large number of “critical” non-residents patients coming to the … Read more
New Delhi: Over 660 ICU beds will be added in various Delhi government hospitals in the next few days in view of the surge in COVID-19 cases in the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday. Interacting with reporters after visiting GTB Hospital in east Delhi along with city Health Minister Satyendar Jain, the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Saturday ordered shifting of all COVID-19 patients from civic-run Hindu Rao Hospital to its own facilities, days after the resident doctors went on a “symbolic indefinite strike” over non-payment of their due salaries for the last three months. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, interacting with reporters, said, as of … Read more
New Delhi: The national capital’s next round of monthly sero-prevalence survey began on Tuesday covering all 272 municipal wards to analyse the COVID-19 situation in Delhi at “micro-level”, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. The sample size this time will be 17,000 and the exercise will be carried out for seven days, he told reporters. The … Read more
NEW DELHI: AAP leader and Kalkaji MLA Atishi, who has recovered from COVID-19, donated her plasma to the ‘plasma bank’ of a state-run facility here on Saturday, and urged others to also do it. The step by the AAP legislator also drew praise from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. “The required tests and counselling was … Read more