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Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Wajid Kadar Khan, who lives in a Mumbai slum, received a COVID-19 vaccine only because his job required it. His wife, Mumtaz (left), says she didn t need one because “I have God.”
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On a Sunday morning in early April, as Mumbai was in a daze from the first weeks of a surge of COVID-19 and had instituted nighttime curfews, Baliram Boomkar asked his neighbors in the city s Kaula Bandar slum whether they wanted a vaccine to protect them or had received one. Some replied that they had been vaccinated but only because their employers required it. One man said he d get the shot if his company gave him time off to recover from side effects. “COVID is nothing,” he said. “People are only spreading rumors. It s all a lie.” A woman said she was afraid a clinic might test her for COVID-19, find she s positive, and then force her to quarantine as happened last year. “I know I can t avoid ....

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Rising coronavirus infection and death rates plague India and Brazil, following covid vaccine rollouts in both countries


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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data showed that the country has added 200,739 infections over the last 24 hours – a seventh daily record surge in the last eight days. The 1,038 deaths during the same span took India’s COVID-19 death toll to 173,123.
“The situation is horrible,” said Avinash Gawande, an official at a government hospital in the industrial city of Nagpur that was battling a flood of patients. “We are a 900-bed hospital, but there are about 60 patients waiting and we don’t have space for them.”
A similar scene is happening more than 9,000 miles away in Brazil. Just over a week ago, Brazil recorded 4,195 deaths in one day. It came close to the peak U.S. daily death toll of 4,476 recorded on Jan. 12, according to data from ....

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Why wealthy nations' vaccine nationalism amid India's Covid crisis could backfire on them


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New Delhi: For months, developed economies have hoarded Covid-19 vaccines and the raw materials needed to make them. Now, they’re being forced to act as an explosive outbreak in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world.
Under mounting criticism for dominating vaccine resources, the U.S. said this week that it will help India by sending items needed to manufacture vaccines as part of an aid package. European countries are also pledging help as new cases in the South Asian country smash world records. President Joe Biden’s administration is separately vowing to share its stockpile of AstraZeneca Plc vaccines which the U.S. hasn’t even approved for use and meeting with drug companies about boosting supply and waiving intellectual property protections on Covid-19 shots, a shift India and South Africa have been pushing for. ....

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