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Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.

Gautengs COVID-19 infection spike a concern for provincial command council The council, which gave an update on its response to the pandemic on Friday, said that the province had recorded a worrying surge in the number of new cases, with infections almost double the average number from last week. FILE: A Doctors Without Border (MSF) nurse (C) performs a COVID-19 coronavirus test during a Ministry of Health s...

Bay Area Indian Americans mobilize to send aid to COVID-affected families in India FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen inside a car provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021.Altaf Qadri/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Clockwise from bottom center, Sana Javeri Kadri and her partner Rosie Russell with Kadris father Rahul, brother Aman Javeri Kadri and mother Shimul Javeri in Mumbai, India in March 2020. Sana Jav...

NICD assures SA it is monitoring COVID-19 surge in NC, NW, FS The NICD said that it was working with provinces to ascertain whether the rise in cases could be attributed to cluster outbreaks and has recommend increased testing and contact tracing to contain the situation. FILE: A Doctors Without Border (MSF) nurse (C) performs a COVID-19 coronavirus test during a Ministry of Health screening and testing driv...

79 new COVID-19 deaths, 756 infections recorded in SA in last 24 hours Seventy-nine more people have died in South Africa after contracting the coronavirus, taking the national death toll to 53,111. FILE: A Doctors Without Border (MSF) nurse (C) performs a COVID-19 coronavirus test during a Ministry of Health screening and testing drive in the Wolhuter mens hostel in Jeppestown district of Johannesburg, on 1...

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reports the country is currently dealing with just over 26,000 cases of the coronavirus.

In the last 24 hours, 1,654 infections have also been reported, with more than 1.5 million positive cases identified since the start of the pandemic.

DWB Gunmen believed to be separatist fighters opened fire on a Doctors Without Borders ambulance in the early hours of Thursday, February 4, 2021, at Mbalangi, along the Kumba-Buea highway. Cameroon-Info.Net learned that Doctors Without Borders left Kumba to Mbalangi in response to a distress call. After picking up the patient from Mbalangi, the aid team was on its way to the hospital in Muyuka when gunmen fired at the ambulance injuring the ambulance nurse. “In the early hours ...

This is according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). On Friday at a press briefing in Geneva, the agency said over 10,000 people crossed the Ubangi River to seek refuge in the Democratic Republic of Congo on January 13 alone. In one month, 9,000 people from the Central African Republic also sought refuge in Congo, Chad, and Cameroon. It called for an "immediate cessation of all violence in the Central African Republic" (CAR) and "the immediate return of all parties t...