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ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021 UPDATED: May 7, 2021 23:36 IST Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images) The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows—and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader relig...

SHARE India’s laboratories are struggling to deal with an influx of coronavirus test requests as the country tackles record-breaking numbers of infections and deaths each day. Thousands of anxious people every day are rushing to book appointments with labs and hospitals for tests to find out whether they have contracted the deadly virus. India has had a record-breaking number of infection cases during its second wave, with the country’s total caseload passing 18.3 million, the second highest after the US. More than 200,000 people have died and many health experts say the official numbers ...

Coronavirus: Diagnostic labs say they need more supplies of material used in COVID-19 testing New Delhi: A large diagnostic chain has sounded caution over an impending shortage of material used in testing for COVID-19 amid a surge in cases across the country in what is now being called a deadly second wave. Thousands and thousands of people have been scrambling every day to send their samples for Covid testing. This surge in testing volume has added to the pressure of diagnostics labs across towns and cities. "As the city grapples for oxygen and hospital beds, the latest update regarding sho...