India Covid-19

• BioNTech vaccine should be up to 75% effective against India COVID-19 variant: CEO

  Since the concerning COVID-19 variant, known as B.1.617.2, was first identified in India, it has ravaged that country.

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  May 20, 2021
  
• Hundreds of suspected COVID-19 victims found buried along Indian riverbanks: officials

  In jeeps and boats, police used portable loudspeakers with microphones asking people not to dispose of bodies in rivers.

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  May 16, 2021
  
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• COVID-19 cases in India hopefully stabilizing, as daily deaths stay near 4,000: officials

  In the past 24 hours, India added 326,098 new infections, taking its tally to 24.37 million, with 3,890 deaths, for a toll of 266,207.

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  May 15, 2021
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• Southern India states lock down as country reports over 4,100 new COVID-19 deaths

  Infections have swelled in a disastrous turn blamed on more contagious variants as well as government decisions to allow massive crowds to gather for festivals and rallies.

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  May 8, 2021
• India’s ‘explosive’ COVID-19 wave threatens country and world: opposition leader

  India's main opposition leader warned that unless the deadly second COVID-19 wave sweeping the country was brought under control it would decimate India.

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  May 7, 2021
• Modi faces growing pressure to lock down India as COVID-19 crisis devastates country

  Many medical experts and critics have suggested a lockdown is the only option as the virus rages in cities and towns, with hospitals forced to turn patients away.

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  May 7, 2021
• India sets new record of 412K COVID-19 cases, nearly 4K deaths as infections spread

  COVID-19 infections in the world's second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show.

  World

  May 6, 2021
• Canada sends medical supplies to India as COVID-19 overwhelms country’s health care

  Medical supplies to India will be airlifted over by the Canadian Armed Forces. 

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  May 5, 2021
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• India reports nearly 3,800 COVID-19 deaths in single day, a new record amid crisis

  The surge of the highly infectious new variant of the coronavirus has seen hospitals runs out of beds and oxygen and left morgues and crematoriums overflowing.

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  May 5, 2021
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• India braces for ‘horrible’ weeks ahead as COVID-19 cases soar past 20 million

  The country has witnessed scenes of people dying outside overwhelmed hospitals and funeral pyres lighting up the night sky, as the case count and death toll surges.

  World

  May 4, 2021