Indian court says dead in genocide over oxygen crisis: live news Coronavirus pandemic News
The Allahabad High Court has said that the deaths caused by the lack of oxygen supply are “less than genocide” as many hospitals are endangered with life-saving gas.
A court in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, has ruled that deaths caused by the lack of oxygen in COVID-19 patients are “a criminal act and less than a genocide”.
The second wave of the pandemic has had a devastating effect on India as it has seen a dangerous supply of oxygen and an incinerator operating uninterrupted.
Australia faces court challenge to its Indian travel ban
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) The Australian government on Wednesday faced a court challenge to its temporary Indian travel ban brought by a 73-year-old citizen stranded in the city of Bengaluru.
The government is resisting growing pressure to lift the travel ban imposed last week until May 15 to reduce COVID-19 infection rates in Australian quarantine facilities.
Lawyers for Gary Newman, one of 9,000 Australians prevented from returning home from India, made an urgent application to the Federal Court in Sydney on Wednesday for a judge to review the travel ban imposed under the Biosecurity Act by Health Minister Greg Hunt.
Paranoia is never a good basis for decision-making.
Australia’s Department of Defense ought to consider that in its review of the 99-year lease that China’s Landbridge Group took over the Port of Darwin in 2015. The department has been tasked with looking into security implications of the deal and advising whether Landbridge should be forced to give up the lease under laws governing critical infrastructure passed in 2018.
The agreement started to ring alarm bells almost as soon as it was announced. Darwin, a steamy port in Australia’s tropical north, is home to as many as 2,500 US Marines. They’ve taken part in joint training programs with the Australian Defense Force since 2012 as part of Washington’s shift toward deeper engagement in the Indian and Pacific Oceans a pivot itself provoked by concerns about Beijing’s growing influence in the region. Ships traveling to the two main wharves included in the lease go directly past HMAS Coonawarra, an Australian naval base
Health Minister Greg Hunt announced that anyone who sets foot in Australia during the travel ban within 14 days of visiting India faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 66,000 Australian dollars ($51,000).
Australia’s prime minister is resisting mounting pressure to lift a temporary ban on flights from India, saying any early resumption of arrivals from that pandemic hot spot would erode Australia’s quarantine capability.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday that the pause of flights that began last week will continue until May 15.
Lawyers are planning a legal challenge to the government’s ability to prevent around 9,000 citizens and permanent residents from returning home from India.
Critics of the travel pause include former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, several Australian lawmakers and leaders of the country’s Indian community………Read More