Category: Corona-Covid19

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 […]

Aimed at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the move sets up a clash over free speech amid a widening political and public health crisis. NEW DELHI — With a devastating second wave of Covid-19 sweeping across India and lifesaving supplemental oxygen in short supply, India’s government on Sunday said it ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to take down […]

Overwhelmed by the pandemic, the country that is a leading maker of vaccines is facing its own crisis at home — and that may be a problem for a world in need of vaccine. NEW DELHI — India is the world’s leading producer of vaccines, but over the past week it has also been the global leader […]

In WhatsApp chats, video calls, Facebook groups and forums, a global community has scrambled to save, and sometimes mourn, Covid-stricken loved ones. LONDON — First, there was the scramble to find her father a bed in intensive care. Then came the price gouging for an all but impossible to find therapeutic injection. And, through it […]

With the Covid-19 crisis pushing the health care system past the breaking point, online grass-roots networks have sprung up to get aid to people who need it. NEW DELHI — Rajni Gill woke up with a slight fever in mid-April, the first warning that she had Covid-19. Within a few days, she was breathless and […]

Mourners and staff members of the Ghazipur crematory, in New Delhi, performing rituals in a parking area on Wednesday. Credit…Ishan Tankha By Aman Sethi Mr. Sethi is a New Delhi-based journalist and writer who has been covering India’s Covid-19 crisis. April 30, 2021 NEW DELHI — The first 36 corpses were placed in the designated concrete […]

It was supposed to be a day when India made a bold step forward in its fight against Covid-19, when everyone 18 and older in its vast population became eligible to be inoculated. Instead, several states reported that vaccine shortages had forced them to delay expanding access, and the country’s latest report of new cases remained higher […]