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 […]

Despite early vows, the developed world has done little to promote global vaccination, in what analysts call both a moral and epidemiological failure. The contrast could hardly be sharper. In much of the developed world, vaccine orders are soaring into the billions of doses, Covid-19 cases are easing, economies are poised to roar to life and people are busy lining […]

The Supreme Court ordered the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come up with a national oxygen distribution plan as coronavirus cases continue to set records. NEW DELHI — Indian hospitals and government leaders scrambled for supplies of oxygen and other emergency aid on Friday as the country reported another record number of new coronavirus infections […]

India’s vaccine maker stumbles The Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine maker, had vowed to take a leading role in India’s fight against Covid-19, and the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, had pledged its vaccines would “save humanity.” Now, those promises have fallen apart. Serum is failing to uphold export deals worth hundreds of millions of […]

The bodies of people who died from Covid-19 were cremated in East Delhi on Friday. Credit… By Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Hari Kumar and Suhasini Raj Photographs by Atul Loke Published April 24, 2021Updated May 13, 2021 Fatalities have been overlooked or downplayed, understating the human toll of the country’s outbreak, which accounts for nearly half of all new cases in a global […]

As India suffers the world’s worst coronavirus crisis, our New Delhi bureau chief describes the fear of living amid a disease spreading at such scale and speed. NEW DELHI — Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn around the clock. Many places are holding mass cremations, dozens […]