Foreign media on India’s Covid crisis May 8, 2021, 1:07 PM IST in Foreign Media, India, TOI
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The catastrophic second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India has triggered global concerns about the terrible human tragedy unfolding across the country. Reports of people struggling to find hospital beds, dying due to lack of oxygen or not being able to procure life-saving drugs have invited criticism from the international press over the country’s mishandling of the situation and not preparing in advance for the second wave.
Here are some of the opinion pieces in foreign media over the last few weeks …
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Devas Threatens New Arbitration In Indian $1.3B Award Fight
Law360 (May 7, 2021, 9:25 PM EDT) India has been threatened with a treaty claim by the Mauritius-based shareholders of satellite company Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. over New Delhi s alleged attempts to avoid paying a nearly $1.3 billion arbitral award against a division of the country s space agency.
The shareholders signaled their intent to initiate an investor-state claim against the country in a Thursday notice addressed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other government officials, in which they accused the country of abus[ing] its sovereign powers by pursuing multiple, baseless investigations against Devas.
2021-05-08 02:14:09 GMT2021-05-08 10:14:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
File photo taken on April 15, 2021 shows staff members working on the production line at Zhengzhou Olive Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province. (Xinhua)
NEW DELHI/ZHENGZHOU, May 7 (Xinhua) Aspiring to become a medical student at the university, 18-year-old Devyanshi from Delhi, India, has been extremely concerned about the COVID-19 epidemic in her country.
India was facing a very critical situation, she said in a video interview with Xinhua recently. There is an acute shortage of ventilators, oxygen cylinders, medicines and also medical stuff, she said. People are dying in great numbers due to this.
New study doubles global COVID-19 death toll
T he number of global COVID-19 deaths is twice as high as officially reported 6.93 million globally, 905,000 in the United States alone according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
These new figures were reported Thursday in an analysis of “excess mortality” by the IHME. Importantly, the study includes only under-reported deaths from COVID-19, and excludes deaths from other causes related to the pandemic including delayed medical care and “deaths of despair” such as suicides or overdoses, related to the social crisis triggered by the pandemic.
A family member mourns next to the bodies of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021 [Credit: AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha]