Overconfidence and missteps contributed to the country’s devastating second wave, his critics say, tarnishing the prime minister’s aura of political invulnerability. NEW DELHI — His Covid-19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister assured the public in March that India had reached the pandemic’s “endgame.” A few weeks before that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to global leaders that […]
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It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complainby Arundhati Roy During a particularly polarising election campaign in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, waded […]
Read MoreComplacency and lack of preparation by the government pushed the country into an unprecedented crisis. By Ramanan Laxminarayan Dr. Laxminarayan is an economist and an epidemiologist. NEW DELHI — A lethal, fast-paced second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has brought India’s health care systems to the verge of collapse and is putting millions of lives and […]
Read MoreThe pandemic sent 32 million people in India from the middle class last year. Now a second wave is threatening the dreams of millions more looking for a better life. By Karan Deep Singh and Hari Kumar Published April 16, 2021Updated April 23, 2021 NOIDA, India — Ashish Anand had dreams of becoming a fashion designer. A former flight attendant, […]
Read MoreAnkita Rao Modi’s government had a choice between saving lives and saving face. It has chosen the latter Afew years ago, as Narendra Modi came into power, I worked on an investigative report about India hiding its malaria deaths. In traveling from tribal Odisha to the Indian national health ministry in New Delhi, my colleague and I […]
Read MoreCounty reports more than 400,000 new infections but experts suspect figures are gross underestimate Covid-19 deaths surged past 4,000 for the first time in India on Saturday in one of the world’s worst outbreaks. India reported a national record of 4,187 new deaths on Saturday. New Delhi has struggled to contain the outbreak, which has overwhelmed its […]
Read MoreThe pandemic overwhelming the big cities is reaching areas of Bihar where there is one doctor for 40,000 people Manoj Chaurasia in Bihar and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi In the small rural village of Kathail, in the east of India’s poorest state, Bihar, access to healthcare has always been scarce. But when 34-year-old Umakant Singh fell sick with […]
Read MoreIndia’s tragedy could be followed by Africa’s, campaigners warn, as wealthy nations fail to extend vaccines – and decide who will live or die The past seven days has been a picture of two pandemics. Among the world’s richest nations, lockdowns and well-resourced vaccine campaigns, which have monopolised the early global supply of doses, have […]
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Locals believe bodies were dumped in river because cremation sites are overwhelmed Dozens of bodies believed to be Covid-19 victims have washed up on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India as the pandemic spreads into India’s vast rural hinterland, overwhelming local health facilities as well as crematoriums and cemeteries. Local official Ashok Kumar said […]
Read MoreAt least 90 more corpses wash up in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as virus continues spreading into poor rural areas At least 90 more bodies of suspected Covid-19 victims have washed up in rivers in India, as the virus continues to spread into poor rural areas and the country recorded its highest daily death […]
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