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Daily daily deaths from Covid-19 rose to a new record of 3,689 in India on Sunday, while the number of coronavirus cases slipped slightly a day after becoming the first country in the world to cross the 400,000 mark. That offered little respite for the nation’s health care system, which is stretched to its limit and is struggling with shortages of oxygen and medical goods.
India Covid Cases Slow; Thai Death Toll at Record: Virus Update Bloomberg 5/3/2021 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost a crucial election as India’s Covid crisis deepens, with an official in his Bharatiya Janata Party conceding defeat in the populous state of West Bengal. Modi had been widely criticized for continuing to hold mass rallies in the state as infections rose. Talks starting this week between the U.S. and the World Trade Organization over expanding access to vaccines will focus on how to get them “widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared,...
Tanzanian President Dies; Brazil Has Record Cases: Virus Update Bloomberg 3 days ago Bloomberg News © Bloomberg Members of the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) transfer a patient to a hospital in Bauru, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Bloomberg) -- Tanzania’s president, a fierce skeptic of the coronavirus pandemic, died at 61. Serbia says it won’t suspend the use of AstraZeneca’s embattled Covid-19 vaccine, which was defended Wednesday by the World Health Organization. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen threatened to withho...
France is considering tougher restrictions in Paris to contain the virus. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron are ready to allow the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine again if the European Union’s drug regulator advises that it’s safe.
Paris Weekend Lockdowns; Astra Vaccine Review: Virus Update Bloomberg 3/16/2021 Bloomberg News © Photographer: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images ROME, ITALY - MARCH 05: A healthcare worker of the Italian Army prepares doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, as part of COVID-19 vaccinations plan for the military personnel, on March 5, 2021 in Rome, Italy. The Italian government blocked the shipment of 250,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine developed by the Anglo-Swedish group and produced in a factory near Rome. This is the first time that a European country has ap...