Category: Corona-Covid19

New Delhi: Rs 400 crore: The cost of vaccines purchased by the Modi government in 2019 as part of an ambitious programme to eliminate foot-and-mouth disease, which has plagued Indian livestock for a century, by 2030. The vaccines were procured from three companies: Brilliant Biopharma Pvt Ltd, Biovet, and the public sector Indian Immunologicals Ltd.© Provided […]

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, as India’s COVID-19 crisis continues, we look at what’s holding back the country’s vaccination rollout and how a shift in strategy on distribution and pricing is causing concern. And we speak to a researcher who went hunting for fungi in the world’s largest seed bank. India’s catastrophic COVID-19 […]

India’s coronavirus death toll surged past 250,000 on Wednesday, official data showed as the pandemic raged across the vast country of 1.3 billion people. According to the health ministry, 4,205 people died in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 254,197. The number of cases rose almost 350,000 to 23.3 million. Many experts suspect […]

An expert panel on Wednesday blamed bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle Covid-19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India’s death toll topped 250,000. India added a record 4,205 deaths to its Covid-19 toll in the past 24 hours, with the variant stoking […]

Infections, deaths and breakdowns that began in big cities a few weeks ago are rapidly advancing into rural areas, unleashing deep fear in places with little medical safety net. By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj NEW DELHI — Dozens of bodies washed up on the banks of the Ganges this week, most likely the remains of people who […]

Dozens more bodies have washed up on the banks of the Ganges in northern India as the country struggles with a second Covid wave. More than 50 bodies have been discovered in Gahmar, Uttar Pradesh over the past few days. On Monday, at least 40 bodies were pulled from the river some 55km (34 miles) downstream […]

The local administration believes the bodies floated down from Uttar Pradesh and belong to Covid patients whose relatives may have been unable to find space to cremate or bury them. All India Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh Patna:  Bloated, decomposing bodies washed up this morning on the banks of Ganga at Bihar’s Buxar in […]

Written by: Oscar Holland, CNN Many Indians are horrified that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is rebuilding the capital’s historic center in a pandemic. But debate among politicians, architects and heritage experts runs deeper still. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overhaul of New Delhi’s historic center was always going to be controversial — even before the […]

By Julia Hollingsworth and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN)The Indian government has been blasted for ignoring warnings of a second wave, encouraging complacency, and failing to be transparent on Covid-19 data, in a scathing editorial in prestigious medical journal The Lancet.The publication branded the response by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government “inexcusable.”India is currently in the midst of […]

India’s healthcare system is in trouble as a record rise in Covid-19 cases puts pressure on hospital beds and drains oxygen supplies. The capital, Delhi, is one of the worst-hit areas, with many hospitals full and many refusing to take new admissions because of uncertainty over supplies for treating those who are ill. Oxygen-equipped ambulances […]