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WORLD / ASIA-PACIFIC Gasping for air By Reuters Published: May 06, 2021 06:03 PM Weakened by fever and gasping for breath, 47-year-old Vinod Kumar died in an ambulance more than 60 kilometers from his home in India's eastern Bihar state, far from the big cities at the center of the nation's devastating COVID-19 crisis. Health workers in PPE check a COVID-19 patient to an isolation ward at the temporary COVID-19 Care facility center attached to LNJP Hospital, at Shehnai Banquet in New Delhi, India, on April 29. Photo: VCGHis death last week followed a frantic journey and dozens of phone c...

As COVID-19 sweeps rural India, sick struggle to access healthcare India's COVID-19 crisis has been most acute in the capital, New Delhi, among other cities, but in rural areas - home to nearly 70% of India's 1.3 billion people - limited public healthcare is posing particular challenges. Written By: Anuradha Nagaraj and Roli Srivastava / Reuters | 1:00 am, May 6, 2021 × Healthcare workers arrive with doses of COVISHIELD, a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, to be administered to workers of a brick kiln at Kavitha village on ...