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Daily daily deaths from Covid-19 rose to a new record of 3,689 in India on Sunday, while the number of coronavirus cases slipped slightly a day after becoming the first country in the world to cross the 400,000 mark. That offered little respite for the nation’s health care system, which is stretched to its limit and is struggling with shortages of oxygen and medical goods.

India Covid Cases Slow; Thai Death Toll at Record: Virus Update Bloomberg 5/3/2021 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost a crucial election as India’s Covid crisis deepens, with an official in his Bharatiya Janata Party conceding defeat in the populous state of West Bengal. Modi had been widely criticized for continuing to hold mass rallies in the state as infections rose. Talks starting this week between the U.S. and the World Trade Organization over expanding access to vac...

Tanzanian President Dies; Brazil Has Record Cases: Virus Update Bloomberg 3 days ago Bloomberg News © Bloomberg Members of the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) transfer a patient to a hospital in Bauru, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Bloomberg) -- Tanzania’s president, a fierce skeptic of the coronavirus pandemic, died at 61. Serbia says it won’t suspend the use of AstraZeneca’s embattled Covid-19 vaccine, which was defended Wednesday by th...

France is considering tougher restrictions in Paris to contain the virus. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron are ready to allow the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine again if the European Union’s drug regulator advises that it’s safe.

Paris Weekend Lockdowns; Astra Vaccine Review: Virus Update Bloomberg 3/16/2021 Bloomberg News © Photographer: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images ROME, ITALY - MARCH 05: A healthcare worker of the Italian Army prepares doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, as part of COVID-19 vaccinations plan for the military personnel, on March 5, 2021 in Rome, Italy. The Italian government blocked the shipment of 250,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine developed by the Anglo-Swed...

U.S. Decline Levels Off; J&J Shot Gets Panel’s Nod: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/27/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg A person in a vehicle arrives to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine at a mass vaccination site at The Forum arena in Inglewood, California, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. U.S. hospitalizations for the coronavirus have plunged 56% from a mid-January peak as the number of patients exiting California hospitals accelerated, data from the Departm...

States Ease Curbs as Cases Dip; J&J Nears U.S. Nod: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/26/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg A healthcare worker tends to a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Scarborough Health Networks Birchmount Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. The number of confirmed cases in the coronavirus outbreak in Canada stands at 818,755 as of 7:30am Toronto, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomber...

Feb 27 2021, 3:05 AM February 26 2021, 4:27 AM February 27 2021, 3:05 AM (Bloomberg) -- February is on track to show just a third of the monthly Covid-19 cases seen during the worst parts of the holiday surge that drove U.S. infections to records, as states such as South Carolina and Wyoming plan to lift more restrictions. (Bloomberg) -- February is on track to show just a third of the monthly Covid-19 cases seen during the worst parts of the holiday surge that drove U.S. infections to records,...

States Ease Curbs as Cases Dip; J&J Nears U.S. Nod: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/26/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg A healthcare worker tends to a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Scarborough Health Networks Birchmount Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. The number of confirmed cases in the coronavirus outbreak in Canada stands at 818,755 as of 7:30am Toronto, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomber...

Japan Approves Pfizer Shot; Auckland Locked Down: Virus Update Feb 15 2021, 9:54 AM February 14 2021, 5:39 AM February 15 2021, 9:54 AM (Bloomberg) -- (Bloomberg) -- The pace of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. continued to ease as the country’s week-to-week average fell to its lowest in almost four months. The White House issued its strongest criticism yet of the World Health Organization’s handling of the investigation into the origins of the virus and China’s involvement...