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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,...
The number of daily coronavirus cases in India crossed the 400,000 mark for the first time, the highest for any nation, as countries rush supplies of oxygen and medical goods to the world’s second-most populous nation. New Delhi extended its lockdown by a week, and a fire killed 18 patients in a Covid-19 ward in western India.
India Gains Aid Pledges: H.K.-Singapore Bubble: Virus Update Bloomberg 41 mins ago (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. has joined European countries in offering help to India as the South Asian nation fights to stem the world’s biggest surge in Covid-19 cases. President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser said the U.S. will also consider offering India unused doses of AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine with the Delhi capital area facing a a severe oxygen shortage. The highly anticipated two-way travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will open May 26 while the EU will allow U.S. tourists who have be...
Word Count: 2127 With the Delhi capital area facing a severe oxygen shortage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi implored Indians to get vaccinated and to disregard rumors about dangerous side-effects. In Baghdad, more than 80 people were killed when a fire tore through a hospital treating patients, including many with coronavirus. Key Developments Vaccine Tracker: More than 1 billion doses have been given around the world India’s double-digit growth forecast in peril as virus hits hard The end of U.S. mass vaccination is coming sooner than later Vaccine shortage holds emerging markets b...