An aircraft carrying the vaccines touched down in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday. “First batch of Sputnik V vaccine arrives in Hyderabad, India! That’s the same day the country starts mass COVID vaccination drive covering its entire adult population. Let’s jointly defeat this pandemic. Together we are …
Read More »Like ‘15 days to slow the spread?’ Fauci advises India to SHUT DOWN country ‘for a few weeks’ amid record Covid-19 surge
“You can shut down temporarily to put an end to the cycle of transmission,” Washington’s coronavirus guru said on Friday in an interview with The Indian Express. “So one of the things to be considered is to temporarily shut down. Literally, lock down so that you wind up having less …
Read More »US to ban travelers from India, as subcontinent grapples with Covid surge
“On the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Administration will restrict travel from India starting immediately,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday. “The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in the [sic] India.” …
Read More »2 black market dealers busted in India amid growing medical oxygen shortage, as Covid-19 death toll hits 200,000
Delhi police seized five oxygen tanks, including a large commercial oxygen cylinder, from black market dealers, ANI news website reported. Medical oxygen is vital for saving people with severe cases of Covid-19, many of whom have major breathing problems. Police have been conducting raids in Delhi and other parts of …
Read More »‘Massive jolts’ felt across northeast India as magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Assam
The quake struck near the towns Dhekiajuli and Tezpur at a depth of around 18 miles (29km) on Wednesday morning, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), while the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) recorded a depth of just shy of 25 miles (40km). Aftershocks have been reported, with USGS …
Read More »India bans election victory parades after judge says officials ‘should be booked for murder’ over Covid-19 negligence
Only two people will be allowed to accompany a winning candidate or their representative to collect a victory certificate on May 2, when the votes will be tallied, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Tuesday. Traditional victory processions are now banned. The results of the regional elections in …
Read More »‘Coronavirus storm’ has shaken India, PM Modi says, as country registers nearly 350,000 Covid-19 cases in new global daily record
India has let its guard down and became overconfident after successfully tackling the first wave of coronavirus only to get heavily hit by the second one, Modi has admitted, in a radio address on Sunday. The prime minister urged citizens to exercise caution and not to panic, advising them to …
Read More »US says it’ll give ‘additional support’ to India Covid-19 crisis amid calls to release unused vaccine doses to hardest-hit nations
Facing a vaccine shortage amid surging infections and a lack of timely oxygen supplies by some hospitals, India has urged the US to lift a ban on the export of key vaccine materials. So far, however, New Delhi has seen its requests being stonewalled, with the US President Joe Biden …
Read More »At least 13 dead after fire breaks out in ICU ward of Covid-19 hospital near Mumbai, India
The fire erupted around 3am local time on Friday in the ICU ward of the Vijay Vallabh private hospital, housing around 90 patients. At the time the fire struck, 18 patients were being treated in the ward, but only five survived the incident and were transported to nearby hospitals. The …
Read More »India smashes global daily coronavirus case record with 300,000+ new infections as total nears 16 million
Indian health officials reported 314,835 new cases on Thursday, bringing its total infection count over 15.9 million. Another 2,104 deaths were announced in the same period, with fatalities reaching a cumulative 184,657 since the beginning of India’s epidemic. The new figure blew past the previous global one-day high of 297,430 …
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