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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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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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‘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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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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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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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.
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Biden set to impose new travel restrictions on India: Official
May 01, 2021 01:45A White House official has said that US President Joe Biden is set to impose new travel restrictions on India starting Tuesday in the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country which is second only to the United States in total coronavirus infections.
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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.