India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data showed that the country has added 200,739 infections over the last 24 hours – a seventh daily record surge in the last eight days. The 1,038 deaths during the same span took India’s COVID-19 death toll to 173,123.
“The situation is horrible,” said Avinash Gawande, an official at a government hospital in the industrial city of Nagpur that was battling a flood of patients. “We are a 900-bed hospital, but there are about 60 patients waiting and we don’t have space for them.”
A similar scene is happening more than 9,000 miles away in Brazil. Just over a week ago, Brazil recorded 4,195 deaths in one day. It came close to the peak U.S. daily death toll of 4,476 recorded on Jan. 12, according to data from
NEW YORK (AP) At this stage in the pandemic, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is concerned that Americans are not getting clear enough messages about what they should or shouldn't be doing to keep themselves and others protected.
India’s COVID crisis Political scientist Tariq Thachil and economist and public health expert Harsha Thirumurthy take a look at India’s public health and politics. “Everyone’s biggest worry was that India. was extremely vulnerable, given that its population of 1.4 billion people live in very densely populated areas,” says Harsha Thirumurthy. Pictured: Jaipur, India. (Image: Adam Auerbach)
After the first wave of the pandemic subsided in India, the country began to relax its precautionary measures, including a stringent lockdown that required millions of migrants to journey back to their home districts with less than four hours’ notice. The country’s COVID case rate peaked at more than 90,000 new diagnoses per day in September, then seemed to slow. By the winter of 2021, key figures within India’s incumbent political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), claimed that India had now defeated COVID un
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A LEGITIMATE QUESTION House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is backing the removal of his No. 3 leader, Liz Cheney, after her repeated criticism of Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud. Yet just two months ago, in March, McCarthy himself denied that his objections to certifying the presidential ballot in two states amounted to an attempt to overturn Trump’s loss.