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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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India’s double viral mutation cause for global concern
May 09, 2021 08:23Across the world, several key mutant strains have emerged thanks to ongoing coronavirus replication in humans. Both ability to replicate and transmit, and a better ability to escape our immune systems, led to the variants establishing themselves as dominant strains across geographies and populations.
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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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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.