(RNS) In the grip of a deadly second wave of COVID-19, religious charities and faith-based organizations are among the many civil society groups that have stepped up to mobilize COVID relief efforts.
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In this aerial picture taken on Monday, burning pyres of victims who lost their lives due to the coronavirus are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India.
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Editor s note: Images used in this story depict mass cremations and may be difficult for readers to look through.
COVID-19 cases are growing exponentially in India. As this new wave sweeps the nation of more than 1 billion, hospitals are running out of oxygen tanks and room to house patients.
And the COVID-19 death count keeps climbing, to the point where authorities are holding mass cremations.
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Travellers at Ben Gurion International Airport on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
The Health Ministry will require all travelers from seven virus-hit nations to quarantine upon arrival in Israel, it announced Thursday.
Chezy Levy, the director-general of the Health Ministry, signed a public health order requiring all arrivals including those vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 from the seven countries to quarantine for 10-14 days upon entering the country.
The countries are Ukraine, Ethiopia, Brazil, South Africa, India, Mexico and Turkey; Israel has also issued a general warning against travel to all of them.
The Health Ministry said the order, which still requires Knesset approval, will come into effect on Monday, May 3.
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