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Brazil seeks to hold Bolsonaro accountable for more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths
May 06, 2021 05:49Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis remains one of the worst in the world, and a brutal economic depression has forced millions into poverty.
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Narendra Modi loses key state election as COVID grips India
May 05, 2021 10:18India’s prime minister has suffered a rare political defeat in a key state election, amid signs of a voter backlash over his handling of the coronavirus disaster as the country reported a record number of deaths.
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‘We’re burning pyres all day’: India accused of undercounting deaths
May 04, 2021 12:13As India battles through one of the world’s deadliest surges of the Covid-19 pandemic, this week India’s health minister Harsh Vardhan insisted that its fatality rate from the disease remained “the lowest in the world”.
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Many US deaths during pandemic were simply due to lack of access to health care
May 02, 2021 12:20For decades, the US government has ignored the warnings from public health experts that the U.S. was not properly prepared for the pandemic Americans are living through now.
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Grief and anger as COVID victims overwhelm Delhi’s crematoriums
May 02, 2021 12:12The bodies came, one after another, after another, after another. So many bodies that the ambulances and trucks carrying them into the crematorium blocked traffic. In New Delhi, a city where someone dies from COVID-19 every four minutes, every day is a battle not just for hospital beds but for a space to say goodbye to the dead with dignity.
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Eurozone driven into double-dip recession as COVID takes toll
May 02, 2021 04:46The Eurozone fell back into recession in the first three months of the year, as a slow vaccination drive and tougher restrictions to stem a third coronavirus wave damaged the region’s economies.
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A Palestinian prayer for Ramadan: May the voices of the oppressed be heard
Apr 30, 2021 14:28Under a hermetic Israeli regime blockade since 2006, the densely populated Gaza Strip lacks basic services like clean water, electricity, or minimally-equipped hospitals. Therefore, long before COVID-19 ravaged many parts of the world, Palestinians in Gaza were dying as a result of easily treatable diseases such as diarrhea, salmonella and typhoid fever.
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Pressure mounts on Johnson over alleged ‘let the bodies pile high’ remarks
Apr 30, 2021 14:27Boris Johnson faced mounting pressure on Monday night (26 Apr 2021) as Conservative insiders added weight to claims that the prime minister said he would rather see bodies pile up than order another lockdown. Faced with fury from relatives of the bereaved, Johnson and senior ministers emphatically denied he said “no more lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands” after reluctantly approving a second England-wide lockdown late last year.
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India’s massive COVID surge puzzles scientists
Apr 30, 2021 14:21The virus is spreading faster than ever before in India despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection.
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Michigan’s COVID wards are filling up with younger patients
Apr 29, 2021 14:30At Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, in one of America’s worst coronavirus hot spots, entire units are still filled with COVID-19 patients. People weak with the virus still struggle to sit up in bed. And the phone still rings with pleas to transfer patients on the verge of death to units with higher-tech equipment.