Delhi submits 'preliminary' report on Covid deaths at Jaipur Golden

Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain was replying to the Centre's submission in Rajya Sabha that no deaths due to lack of oxygen were specifically reported by states and union territories

The Delhi government's report to the high court about not being certain if oxygen shortage led to the death of 21 Covid-19 patients at Jaipur Golden Hospital here could be considered a "preliminary report, prepared just in a day", Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday.

"In this particular case, the report had to be submitted in just a day…You can say it was a preliminary report," he said when asked why the Delhi government's panel submitted in the high court that no death occurred at Jaipur Golden Hospital due to oxygen shortage.

"For a final report, we had set up a