New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): As many as 13 people were injured in a gas cylinder explosion at a restaurant in the Jamia Nagar area in the national capital on Thursday afternoon, fire department officials said.

New Delhi Dec 30 PTI Senior doctors in Delhi on Thursday warned that though the data collected so far suggests that the Omicron variant of coronavirus causes mild infection there is a need to remain watchful as a community spread can still strain hospitalsThe elderly and those having comorbidities are at serious risk they saidEarlier in the day Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Omicron is gradually spreading in the community and the new fast-spreading variant of concern has been found in 54 per cent of the latest samples analysed in the national capitalHe also said that the variant will only spread further in the coming daysDr Piyush Jain Medicine Department Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital said Data from some foreign countries shows that the Omicron variant causes mild infection in most of the cases But we do not have the data from India yet However it can still put the elderly and those having comorbidities at serious riskDr Jugal Kishore head of community medicine at Safdarjung Hospital said people who are immunocompromised or have HIV or secondary infections need to take care of themselves and not step out take regular medications and monitor their sleep cycle Sumit Ray head of department of Critical Care Medicine at Holy Family Hospital said the sheer number of Omicron cases can overwhelm hospitalsWe have to be watchful In South Africa there have been fewer hospitalisations due to Omicron Most of the hospitalisations in other foreign countries are because of Delta But if the number of infections is 2 lakh per day like in France and the hospitalisations due to Omicron are one-seventh or one-eighth of that number its a fairly high number he saidDelhi on Thursday recorded 1313 new COVID-19 cases the highest single-day rise since May 26 while the positivity rate mounted to 173 per cent according to health department dataAccording to Union health ministry data updated on Thursday India recorded the highest daily rise of 180 Omicron cases taking the total tally of such infections in the country to 961 PTI SLBGVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Dec 20 PTI A 54-year-old woman and a nine-year-old girl have succumbed to dengue in the past one-and-a-half months taking the total number of fatalities due to the vector-borne disease reported in Delhi this year to 17 according to a report released on MondayTill December 11 the official dengue death tally maintained by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation the nodal agency for tabulating data on vector-borne diseases in the city was 15The total number of dengue cases have also risen to over 9400 About 150 fresh cases have been logged in the last one week far less than what was being reported till two weeks agoAccording to the civic bodys report on vector-borne diseases released on Monday a total of 9414denguecases and 17 deaths have been recorded this season till December 18The 54-year-old woman who died of dengue at Jaipur Golden Hospital on November 2 was a resident of Hiranki village The nine-year-old girl was from Jaitpur and she died at Holy Family Hospital on November 18 officials saidA total of 1138 cases have been recorded this month till December 18 In the previous years the total dengue cases reported were 4431 in 2016 4726 in 2017 2798 in 2018 2036 in 2019 and 1072 in 2020 according to the reportIn 2015 the city had witnessed a massive outbreak ofdenguewith the number of cases crossing 10600 in October itself making it the worst outbreak of the vector-borne disease in the national capital since 1996The number of dengue fatalities this year is the highest in the national capital since 2016 when the officially reported death count was 10 Delhi had recorded two deaths due to dengue in 2019 four in 2018 and 10 each in 2017 and 2016The number of deaths due to dengue in years preceding 2020 was two in 2019 four in 2018 10 in both and 2016On November 17 the city had a total of 5277denguecases making it the highest number of cases of the vector-borne disease recorded in the national capital in a year since 2015 In September 217 cases were logged the highest count for the month in three yearsThe number of cases reported for the January 1-December 18 period in the previous five years were -- 1062 in 2020 1998 in 2019 2798 in 2018 4711 in 2017 and 4384 in 2016 according to the reportA total of 1072casesand one death were logged in 2020The 6739 cases reported in November is by far the highest number of cases recorded in a month this year It is also the highest count for November in at least six yearsThe month-wise distribution of dengue cases in 2021 stands as -- January zero February two March five April 10 May 12 June seven July 16 and August 72Dengue mosquito larvae breed in clear standing water while those of malaria thrive even in dirty water Cases of vector-borne diseases are usually reported between July and November but the period may stretch till mid-December PTI KND AKM NSD NSD

New Delhi Nov 17 PTI Amid deteriorating air quality in the national capital a private city hospital is planning to write pollution-related in diagnosis of patients in what could be a first for a medical facility here The Holy Family Hospital in Okhla will start this process for their ICU patients said Dr Sumit Ray head of the department of critical care at the hospital Worsening lung condition can be either due to infection seasonal change or due to pollution With X-rays cultures and certain bio-markers we will be able to rule out the possibility of the condition being due to infection or any other factor If those are negative and if there was a spike in pollution levels at that time and there was no other reason that triggered the problem we will put it in the final diagnosis that it was triggered by pollution he said When asked if it will also be done for the OPD patients he said that in the OPD setting it may be difficult because one doesnt carry out as many tests as are carried out for patients who are hospitalised We have been talking with our colleagues about this This is the first time any hospital will be writing such a diagnosis he said Recently a patient in Canada with breathing issues was diagnosed as suffering from climate change This story made an impact on me and I thought that we have to make it a part of our diagnosis It will be a constant reminder that the air quality levels are worsening he said Currently the hospital has one patient whose documents will mention pollution-related as a diagnosis There are two patients with acute exacerbation For one of these patients we are sure that the condition is pollution related and it will be there in the final diagnosis while for the other patient we are still evaluating Ray added PTI SLB AAR