Month: May 2021

Kejriwal govt’s daily health bulletins between 15 and 21 May counted more deaths each day than the corresponding tally from Delhi’s municipal corporations. New Delhi: All this while, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi government was being accused of under-counting Covid-19 deaths in the national capital. But the story seems to have turned on its head. The […]

India has marked a grim new milestone as the COVID-19 crisis rages through the country, with 300,000 dead and 26 million confirmed cases. India has marked a grim new milestone as the COVID-19 crisis continues to devastate the country. Tragically, the nation has now recorded more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths and 27 million cases, making […]

India’s capital is planning to relax COVID-19 restrictions from next Monday, despite the raging pandemic, soaring deaths and a vaccine shortage. blob:https://www.news.com.au/843f6966-e372-4f71-af9c-1e133b619abb. Indian capital New Delhi is planning to relax COVID-19 restrictions from next Monday, May 31, despite the raging pandemic causing record deaths across the nation and a shortage of vaccines. A devastating second […]

7,200 mucormycosis cases reported, usually in patients with diabetes or compromised immune systems Patients on a Covid ward in a Hyderabad hospital on 21 May. Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty ImagesHannah Ellis-Petersen in DelhiFri 21 May 2021 13.59 BST Last modified on Fri 21 May 2021 17.19 BST States across India have begun declaring a “black fungus” […]

Fears of cover-up as crematoriums record twice the number of Covid fatalities as official death toll As 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”. It was a statement that […]

New variants are contributing factor behind country’s vicious second wave with likelihood of more emerging Health experts have warned that a Covid-19 third wave is “inevitable” in India, as evidence grows that new variants are a contributing factor behind the country’s vicious second wave. India broke global records again on Thursday, recording 412,784 new cases and […]

The global need for oxygen has spiked far beyond the available supply at hospitals, especially in India — another example of how unprepared the world was to face the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest horror of the pandemic is that large numbers of people around the world are dying for lack of access to medical oxygen, especially […]

At least 10 people, and possibly as many as 24, died after a hospital ran out of an increasingly precious resource here: medical oxygen. It was the latest in a growing series of such accidents. When the pipes carrying oxygen to critically ill Covid-19 patients stopped working at a hospital in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Sunday […]

International donors are raising millions, but the Modi administration has erected hurdles for overseas organizations and guided money toward officially endorsed groups. Bake sales on Instagram. Online fund-raisers involving Hollywood celebrities. Pledges of aid from companies like Mastercard and Google. A middle-of-the-night flight by a FedEx cargo plane transporting thousands of oxygen concentrators and masks. India’s devastating […]

India on Tuesday passed the milestone of 20 million reported coronavirus cases, with many more undetected, according to experts, spurring new calls for a national lockdown. With those reported numbers, India became the second country after the United States to cross 20 million cases. Although aid has begun to pour in from other countries, hospitals are […]