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India accounts for half of last week's newly confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide: WHO
May 14, 2021 00:02India accounted for 50 percent of the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and 30 percent of related deaths worldwide over the past week, while the situation in its neighboring countries also raised grave international concerns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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India’s COVID-19 deaths break daily record to pass 250,000 mark
May 12, 2021 11:30India’s coronavirus deaths crossed a quarter million on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, overloading a fragile rural healthcare system.
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India sets new COVID-19 record, WHO warns of threat to globe
May 11, 2021 12:06The weekly average number of COVID-19 infections in India has hit a new record, as World Health Organization (WHO) authorities warn that the country’s variant of the virus poses a global threat.
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South Africa warns of 'vaccine apartheid' amid hoarding by rich nations
May 11, 2021 06:40South Africa’s president has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Iran’s emergency evacuation flight from India waiting for approval
May 09, 2021 02:44The Iranian civil aviation authority (CAO) says it is waiting for permission from the Iranian health ministry to hold an emergency flight to India to evacuate Iranian nationals from the country amid a serious outbreak of the coronavirus.
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India posts record daily COVID-19 deaths, delegates test positive at G7 meet
May 05, 2021 10:15India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as COVID-19 deaths in the south Asian nation rose by a record 3,780 during the past 24 hours.
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India halts cricket league as coronavirus cases cross 20 million
May 05, 2021 03:34India halted its hugely popular cricket league on Tuesday as COVID-19 infections surged past 20 million in the world's second-most populous country and the opposition leader said a nationwide lockdown was now the only way out.
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US hoarding millions of surplus vaccine doses as COVID-19 engulfs India
May 04, 2021 09:39The United States could have as many as “three hundred million surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses” by the end of July even as India and other countries are struggling to curb the spread of the virus, reports say.
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US persists with ‘vaccine nationalism’ as coronavirus wreaks havoc in India
May 02, 2021 10:22The United States and other Western nations have hoarded tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses they may never use and the raw materials needed to make them as India becomes the epicenter of the disease.
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Fire in hospital's intensive care kills 18 in India's Gujarat
May 01, 2021 04:54At least 18 people, including two healthcare workers, were killed in a fire at a COVID-19 hospital in the western Indian state of Gujarat late on Friday night, officials said on Saturday, in the country's latest deadly hospital accident.