BY ABC News Radio | May 3, 2021
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(NEW YORK) As India faces an overwhelming surge of record-breaking COVID-19 cases and deaths, humanitarian organizations are offering ways to help the country in dire need of resources.
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), a global humanitarian agency that helps in delivering emergency relief, has been working with its India chapter to provide on-the-ground resources during the crisis.
Since the pandemic began, CARE India has aided more than 400,000 people in the most marginalized sections of the country with PPE and dry ration support, a CARE spokesperson told ABC News.
“The unabated spread of COVID-19 has placed immense strain on organizations and communities dealing with this humanitarian crisis,” CARE India told ABC News. “Marginalized communities face the greatest risk since they are already
Published May 3, 2021, 6:46 PM
The Philippines has expressed solidarity with the people of India as the second wave of coronavirus infections continued to batter the world’s second most populous country.
President Duterte has already sent a letter of solidarity to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to Philippine Ambassador to India Ramon Bagatsing Jr.
“How can the Philippines help? I think President Duterte has already sent a letter of solidarity and support to the Prime Minister here. Other countries, there at least 40 countries that have donated oxygen equipment and other ventilators and other medical equipments to India,” he said during an online press briefing.
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A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a man to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus after police in rural areas launched a free cab service for villagers to the testing and vaccination centres on the outskirts of Amritsar on May 3, 2021. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP) India’s total Covid-19 caseload neared 20 million and oxygen shortages exacerbated a devastating second wave on Monday, as the EU proposed new rules that could allow travellers who are fully vaccinated to enter the bloc. Cases have soared by around eight million since the end of March, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi under growing pressure to take decisive action to reverse the surge.
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Official China Communist Party Social Media Posts Mocks India s COVID Crisis
On 5/3/21 at 1:10 PM EDT
A pair of recent social media posts by Chinese Community Party (CCP) agencies that mocked India s COVID-19 crisis caused a massive backlash at home and abroad, resulting in the messages being deleted.
On Saturday, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which is the organization under the CCP s Central Committee responsible for political and legal affairs, posted a picture on social media of China s recent space launch with the caption, China lighting a fire. Next to that image was a photo of Indian funeral pyres with the caption, India lighting a fire.