Harsh Mander: Recalling the heart-wrenching suffering and helpless fear of the Covid-19 second wave
The first part of a new series by the social activist looking back on the price India paid when the pandemic peaked in 2021.
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Indian city's death data suggests official tally of COVID fatalities is too low
At least seven crematoriums and graveyards in India's western city of Surat saw a more than three-fold rise in the number of cremations and burials last month compared with a year ago, suggesting many more COVID-19 fatalities than an official tally. The data, gathered from site visits and logs reviewed by Reuters, shows the facilities buried or cremated more than 6,520 bodies in April 2021, up from about 1,980 in April 2020, in the early part of the first wave of coronavirus infections. Official data for the district of Surat, home to about 6 million people, indicates however that a tot...
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Surat's death data suggests official tally of COVID fatalities is too low
The data, gathered from site visits and logs reviewed by Reuters, shows the facilities buried or cremated more than 6,520 bodies in April 2021, up from about 1,980 in April 2020, in the early part of the first wave of coronavirus infections.
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Data from Surat's crematorium show 11 times more COVID deaths than official tally
State government data shows 1,205 probable COVID-19 deaths in Surat in April were those of people from other places
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India reports the highest number of COVID-19 cases ever seen during the pandemic
India reports the highest number of COVID-19 cases ever seen during the pandemic Yesterday, India, a country with a population of 1.366 billion people, reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases ever seen across the globe by a single nation. The United States had set the previous record on January 8, 2021, with 307,581 COVID cases during its horrific winter surge. After a low of fewer than 10,000 cases on February 11, India confirmed 315,728 cases on April 21, 2021. The country’s epidemiologic curve of new COVID cases continues to spiral upwards. Worldwide, 144.4 million cases of COVID-1...
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