Video showing labourers picking up the pieces of cloth and bamboo sticks, marking where suspected Covid bodies are buried, has gone viral. Lucknow: A video of labourers removing pieces of cloth covering shallow graves along the Ganga in Prayagraj, suspected to be of those who died of Covid, has been circulating on social media since Tuesday […]

Looting, military escorts and auctions: the oxygen war is raging in India, which is raging under the strongest wave of coronaviruses in the world. Advertisements proliferate on social media and numbers are exchanged under the elbow like those of traffickers of all kinds. But cam has never been more vital: 02, oxygen. As the coronavirus epidemic […]

STORY – Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, is accused of failing to deliver and increasing prices. On 28 November, Adar Poonawalla welcomes Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a Covid vaccine production line in Pune, western India, at the headquarters of the Serum Institute of India (SII). Alongside him were his father, Cyrus, […]

India said Monday it had passed more than 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the third country after the United States and Brazil to hit figure as a huge wave of infections overwhelms the healthcare system. The South Asian nation’s toll now stands at 303,720 after adding 50,000 deaths in just under two weeks, as […]

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 […]