Kenya - Floods (IFRC, Kenya Red Cross, FloodList, Meteo Kenya) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 April 2021)
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The Long Rains season is currently affecting parts of Kenya, causing flooding across Tana River, Busia, Kisumu, Garissa and Marsabit Counties, as reported by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). At least two fatalities have occurred and up to 25,958 people (4,493 households) have been displaced. In addition, about 1,308 ha of land with crops have been destroyed in the Tana River basin.
In the past recent days, Kenya Red Cross reports that heavy rain caused flooding across Migori County (south-western Kenya), resulting in at least 200 households affected in the Kakelo Kakoth sub-location.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, the country’s deadliest day, as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new infections.
The second wave of infections has seen at least 300,000 people test positive each day for the past week, overwhelming healthcare facilities and crematoriums and fuelling an increasingly urgent international response.
The last 24 hours brought 360,960 new cases for the world’s largest single-day total, taking India’s tally of infections to nearly 18 million. It was also the deadliest day so far, with 3,293 fatalities carrying the toll to 201,187.
Experts believe the official tally vastly underestimates the actual toll in a nation of 1.35 billion, however.
The world is entering a critical phase of the pandemic and needs to have vaccinations available for all adults as soon as possible, said Udaya Regmi, South Asia head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This is both an ethical and public health imperative, he added. As variants keep spreading, this pandemic is far from over until the whole world is safe.
Ambulances lined up for hours in the capital, New Delhi, to take the bodies of COVID-19 victims to makeshift crematorium facilities in parks and parking lots, where bodies burned on rows of funeral pyres.
India s coronavirus deaths exceed 200,000 after record surge in cases 28 Apr 2021 / 15:06 H. People lower the body of Laeeq Ahmed, 67, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), into a grave during his funeral at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 27, 2021. –Reuters
NEW DELHI: India s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, the country s deadliest day yet, as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new infections.
The second wave of infections has seen at least 300,000 people test positive each day for the past week, overwhelming healthcare facilities and crematoriums and driving an increasingly urgent international response.
Indians rush for vaccines as coronavirus toll tops 200,000
By Neha Arora and Sanjeev Miglani
Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin next month as the country s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
The second wave of infections has seen at least 300,000 people test positive each day for the past week, overwhelming health facilities and crematoriums and fuelling an increasingly urgent response from allies overseas sending equipment.
The last 24 hours brought 360,960 new cases for the world s largest single-day total, taking India s tally of infections to nearly 18 million. It was also the deadliest day so far, with 3,293 fatalities carrying the toll to 201,187.