Month: May 2021

By Jack Hunter As India’s devastating Covid-19 crisis mounted last month, countries around the world began sending emergency medical supplies to help stem the surge. Planeloads of ventilators, medicines and oxygen equipment began pouring into India, from countries including the UK and the US, at the start of last week. By Sunday, some 300 tonnes […]

Overall tally surges past 21 million, boosted by a record 412,262 new cases, while the death toll now stands at 230,168, health ministry data shows. India has reported more than 400,000 coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while the number of dead from the virus rose to a record 3,980. The South Asian nation’s […]

BY VINEETHA MOKKIL It’s time to face facts. Your God does not have a 56-inch chest. Your God is all bluster, no action. All swagger, no substance. Your God has failed the people of India on every count as the worst crisis in modern times ravages the country. Your God has no interest in protecting […]

As India’s COVID-19 crisis continues, the percentage of the population testing positive for the virus has grown from 4.2% to 18.4% in the past 30 days. With more than 300,000 new cases reported each day, hospitals and crematoria face collapse. Global media have been awash with heartbreaking images, statistics and stories showing the failure of the country’s health […]

By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat 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 […]

An appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Please step aside. We need a government. Desperately. And we don’t have one. We are running out of air. We are dying. We don’t have systems in place to know what to do with help even when it’s on hand. What can be done? Right here, right now? We […]

Our South Asia correspondent reflects on a catastrophe that is now affecting the lives of almost everyone in the country You recently lost a close colleague, Kakoli Bhattacharya, to Covid-19. Can you tell us about her and the important work that she did?Kakoli was the Guardian’s news assistant over here and had worked for us since 2009. […]