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Twenty-six-year-old Jyoti Yadav had never covered the health beat but when The Printâs Lucknow reporter fell sick (like every second journalist there), she was catapulted into this hotspot of Indiaâs unfolding Covid-19 crisis. For the first few days things seemed manageable, she said, but then all hell broke loose. Since then sheâs wandered the city like a watchful spirit, distributing masks to ill-equipped constables; and counting d.
Twenty-six-year-old Jyoti Yadav had never covered the health beat but when
The Printâs Lucknow reporter fell sick (like every second journalist there), she was catapulted into this hotspot of Indiaâs unfolding Covid-19 crisis. For the first few days things seemed manageable, she said, but then all hell broke loose. Since then sheâs wandered the city like a watchful spirit, distributing masks to ill-equipped constables; and counting deaths at cremato
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Coronavirus: India added to UK s travel ´red list´ hours after Boris cancels trip
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Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled a planned trip to India due to the current coronavirus situation in India. AFP/File
Britain imposes its strictest travel curbs on India after an explosion of coronavirus cases across the country.
People returning from red-list nations must pay hefty amounts to stay in quarantine hotel for 10 days.
The decision comes on the heels of surging case numbers and the emergence of a new Covid-19 variant in India.
Hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson called off a trip to New Delhi, Britain on Monday imposed its strictest travel curbs on India after an explosion of coronavirus cases across the country.
On a rainy afternoon on Sunday, April 11, Rinzin Lhundup was a quiet presence, listening to his friends intently as they chatted about the day’s proceedings over cups of steaming hot butter tea. The reticent 50-year-old, who works as a housekeeper in Manhattan, had arrived at the Phuntsok Deshe, the Tibetan Community Center in Queens, to cast his ballot for the Tibetan government in exile, then stuck around to help sell fundraising wares for the community.
Lhundup and nearly 5,000 other Tibetans had turned up at the Queens center from around New York and neighboring states to take part in democracy in a country that doesn’t officially exist. Lhundup was forced to leave his home in Lhasa to escape Chinese persecution in 1991. He trekked into Nepal, eventually settling for a time in India before moving to the United States. His father, also an activist, died at the hands of the Chinese and his younger sister Ngawang Sangdrol was the longest-serving Tibetan prisoner in China. She w