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An Indian medical worker says doctors are so burnt out they are struggling to fill shifts as COVID-19 patients overwhelm hospitals Kelsie Sandoval 19 hours ago On May 1, India set a global record of the highest number of COVID-19 cases recorded in one day. So many people are dying, one medical...

Covid and the bureaucracy: India needs modern institutions that are autonomous, accountable and creditworthy Gurcharan Das The events of the past month have been so tragic, so unspeakably ugly that the only rational response was to pretend it wasn’t happening. The raging second wave of the virus...

Enforcing Covid-19 rules proves to be a challenge for India's police, not known for their soft touch BANGALORE - India's police, not known for their soft touch, are struggling with enforcing Covid-19 restrictions, with reports of excessive use of force emerging across the country. But they have...

Congress to take ‘crowdsourcing’ path to estimate Covid deaths Subodh Ghildiyal / TNN / May 28, 2021, 06:08 IST NEW DELHI: Amid conflicting figures of Covid deaths emerging in official and media claims, Congress is considering “crowdsourcing” to reach what it says will be a rough estimate of...

India delayed starting its Covid-19 vaccination programme by 6 months Citing "massive" vaccine shortage in the country, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said India will lose the Covid battle if the Centre and states fail to combat the fatal virus together. Kejriwal appealed to...

COVID-19 toll on Indian economy deepens, jobs crisis to worsen May 27, 202111:02 PM EDT India’s economic outlook has weakened again, albeit slightly, with worst-case scenario forecasts suggesting the toll from the coronavirus pandemic could be much deeper, stoking fears the job crisis may...

Twitter urges Indian government to respect freedom of expression By Associated Press Twitter on Thursday said it is worried about the safety of its staff in India and called for the government to respect freedom of expression, days after Indian police visited its office in New Delhi over its...

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Hindus have a new deity! Incredible! Why didn't they also invent a goddess of oxygen to ease the oxygen shortage? :omghaha: :omghaha: :omghaha: Two ‘Corona Devi’ idols set up in southern city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state as the country battles a new infection surge. In this picture...

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Prioritising image management over planning has led to India's Covid catastrophe Prime minister Narendra Modi prefers to sow conflict and division than take proper control of what is now an international crisis Mohamed Zeeshan27 May 2021 • 8:00am Family members of a man who died of the...

EMS Around the World: India’s Chaotic COVID Response The Indian EMS sector is facing possibly the biggest challenge in almost 76 years of existence in its present form, as the country’s catastrophic situation with COVID-19 puts tremendous pressure on the country’s physicians, paramedics, and...

Generation of Covid Orphans at Risk of Exploitation in India Government officials and NGOs are concerned, but worry that good Samaritans are playing into the hands of child traffickers. More stories by Saritha RaiMay 26, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT Illustration: Daniel Zender for Bloomberg Businessweek...

How COVID-19 Surge Is Related to a Black Fungus Outbreak Share on PinterestAmarjeet Kumar Singh/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images An epidemic of ‘black fungus’ cases has surged in India in the wake of a spike in COVID-19. Symptoms of black fungus (mucormycosis) include facial swelling, nasal...

Indian doctors question plan to hand out guru’s COVID-19 remedy May 26, 20216:47 AM EDT Indian doctors on Wednesday decried the free distribution of an unproven remedy to COVID-19 patients by the state of Haryana as the maker of the herbal medicine faced a backlash over comments in which he...

India’s Cascading COVID-19 Failures The Staggering Cost of an Unscientific Response to the Pandemic By May 26, 2021 Shallow graves of people suspected to have died from COVID-19, Prayagraj, India, May 2021 Ritesh Shukla / Reuters At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Vivian...

India’s True Coronavirus Death Toll Could Be 4.2 Million: Report In a worst-case scenario, more than 4 million Indians might have already died of the virus, The New York Times found. Sara Boboltz India’s official coronavirus death toll is widely believed to be a massive undercount, but by how...