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In New Delhi alone, one death from Covid-19 is being reported every four minutes and ambulances around India have been taking the bodies of victims to makeshift crematoriums in parks and parking lots, where bodies burn on rows of funeral pyres.

How mask, early testing and vaccine can reverse Covid-19 curve in India Considering the Covid-19 surge, doctors and health experts have suggested a number of ways to check the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the ways advertisement Health workers collect nasal swab sample to test for Covid-19 in Vijayawada (Source: PTI) International help has started arriving in India as the Covid-19 situation turned into a severe crisis. A “Help India Defeat Covid-19 campaign” has been launch...

Joe Biden spoke to PM Modi, pledging US assistance after growing pressure on Washington to help. Highlights Joe Biden pledged his full support to PM Modi The decision would make 60 million vaccine doses available for export The U.S. announced Monday it would share its entire supply of AstraZeneca Plcs Covid-19 vaccine with other countries and readied an aid package for India, as President Joe Biden pivots to ramp up U.S. pandemic assistance to the rest of the world. The decision would make as m...

April 27, 2021 A functioning vaccination program would appear to be the strongest weapon for halting the unrelenting march of India’s second Covid-19 wave. And yet, it is in a state of total disarray. The government’s failure to effectively negotiate prices and procurement could not only cost lives, but devastate the economy too. On May 1, India will open up its Covid-19 vaccine drive to all people over the age of 18. In this phase, makers of authorized vaccines will be able to directly ...

April 26, 2021 It was a tweet from India’s largest vaccine manufacturer that made the US a stakeholder in India’s fight against the brutal second wave of Covid-19. On April 16, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla tweeted to US president Joe Biden about the latter’s embargo on exporting vaccine raw materials. He didn’t specify what these raw materials were, nor did he say if these were meant for the production of Covishield, the AstraZeneca vaccine his company is manufacturing i...

Start wearing masks inside homes Centre cautions amid second COVID wave The Centre on Monday said its time for people to start wearing face masks inside their homes as well to curb the spread of COVID-19 amid a deadly second wave. Karnataka promises free vaccine to all above 18 at government centres The deadly second wave of COVID-19 has posed a significant challenge to India, one that is proving to be harder to cope with than imagined. With a baseline of 3 lakh+ cases on a daily basis, thousan...

As COVID-19 Spike Continues, Offers For Help and Solidarity From Governments Abroad Earlier, the United States had indicated that it was not yet ready to loosen restrictions on the export of vaccine raw materials. Family member wearing PPE performs last rites of a COVID-19 victim at Nigambodh Ghat crematorium, in New Delhi, Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo: PTI World16 hours ago New Delhi: With the graph of COVID-19 cases in India spiking relentlessly, China, France, Australia and Germany have mad...

Indias hospitals locked in desperate fight against COVID-19 Authorities in India are scrambling to bolster health care infrastructure as the latest wave of coronavirus infections stretches hospitals to their breaking point. Many people are camping out in front of hospitals where their loved ones are being treated. DWs Nimisha Jaiswal reports. Watch video 03:13

Synopsis Agencies I think EMs will face a bigger trade-off soon because of currency pressures – rupee has depreciated this year. This does have some filtering through to inflation, she said. India needs to ward off credit crunch as a strong second wave of Covid-19 has hit the country at a time when there is constrained fiscal space and monetary ammunition, said Carmen Reinhart, chief economist of the World Bank Group. In an interview to ET , she said India would do well to take early action ...

, you had done a study looking at the prevalence of Covid-19 within families. One of your key findings was that the disease was not spreading as intensely within families as it was outside and in 70%-80% of cases, family members of Covid-19 persons were not affected. Was that because of the behaviour of the virus at that time? How have things changed in this second wave? Dileep Mavalankar : The first major change we see in this second wave, at least anecdotally, is that entire families are affe...