India Covid crisis: Experts blast early pandemic failures as deaths top 250,000
AFP/Geneva Filed on May 13, 2021
India added a record 4,205 deaths to its Covid-19 toll in the past 24 hours.
An expert panel on Wednesday blamed bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle Covid-19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India’s death toll topped 250,000.
India added a record 4,205 deaths to its Covid-19 toll in the past 24 hours, with the variant stoking the country’s surge now present in dozens of other countries across the globe.
Looking back to the earliest days of the pandemic, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) blamed a “toxic cocktail” of dithering and poor coordination for the more than 3.3 million deaths so far and untold economic damage.
Covid-19: Global cases top 160 million
IANS/Washington Filed on May 13, 2021
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world s highest number of cases and deaths.
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 159.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.32 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 160,063,260 and 3,326,378, respectively.
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world s highest number of cases and deaths at 32,813,531 and 583,647, respectively, according to the CSSE.