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India vaccinates record 10 million in one day

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 28 03:40 PM

India had aimed to vaccinate about 1.1 billion adults by the end of 2021, but shortages, administrative confusion and hesitancy have held back numbers Read more »

India says new COVID variant ‘Delta plus’ is a concern

Uday Sampath Kumar and Bhargav Acharya, Reuters
Posted at Jun 23 03:10 AM

India on Tuesday declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern, and said nearly two dozen cases had been detected in three states. Read more »

India hits daily COVID vaccination record, as free shots opened to all adults

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 22 03:34 AM

The progress with inoculations came on International Yoga Day, with Prime Minister Modi hailing the practice's "protective" properties against the coronavirus. Read more »

Delhi, Mumbai ease lockdown, as India COVID numbers fall

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 11:11 PM

At least 344,082 people in India have lost their lives to the coronavirus, which is now surging in rural areas.  Read more »

India's COVID deaths surpass 300,000

Reuters
Posted at May 24 01:43 PM

BENGALURU - India's overall death toll from COVID-19 crossed 300,000 on Monday, as it reported 4,454 deaths over the last 24 hours. Read more »

India tells social media firms to take down 'Indian variant' posts

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 08:33 PM

The B.1.617 variant was first detected in India last year and has been blamed for much of a devastating COVID wave that has battered South Asian nations in recent weeks. Read more »

Bodies float down Ganges, as nearly 4,000 more die of COVID in India

Saurabh Sharma, Reuters
Posted at May 12 02:09 AM

A local resident said that "people are immersing bodies in the holy Ganges river instead of cremation because of shortage of cremation wood". Read more »

Cow dung not a cure for COVID, Indian doctors warn

Reuters
Posted at May 11 11:05 AM

In the state of Gujarat in western India, some believers have been going to cow shelters once a week to cover their bodies in cow dung and urine in the hope it will boost their immunity against, or help them recover from, the coronavirus. In Hinduism, the cow is a sacred symbol of life and the earth. Read more »

India turns to ex-army medics, as COVID surge sparks calls for lockdown

Abhirup Roy and Aishwarya Nair, Reuters
Posted at May 10 02:06 AM

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce a nationwide lockdown as it did during the first wave last year. Read more »

COVID-19 spreading in rural India, logs record daily rise in infections, deaths

Reuters
Updated as of May 06 02:16 PM

India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside. Read more »

India warned to brace for new coronavirus waves

Bhuvan Bagga, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 06 04:59 AM

Hospitals across the country were still suffering Wednesday while courts have stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Modi's government over its response. Read more »

Trainee doctors in India pulled from exams to fight world's biggest COVID-19 surge

Adnan Abidi and Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters
Posted at May 04 03:10 AM

India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world's biggest surge in coronavirus infections. Read more »

‘Colossal’ queues: Shortages, confusion in India's vaccination drive

Bhuvan Bagga, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 30 05:06 AM

From Saturday, just as India reels from a brutal explosion of cases, an estimated 500 million to 600 million Indians will become eligible when the drive is opened to all adults. Read more »

‘Losing count’: India crematoriums at breaking point, as COVID toll mounts

Jalees Andrabi, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 28 08:36 AM

For the past 3 days a crematorium in northeast Delhi has been performing more than 100 funerals a day, and has run out of space. Read more »

Philippines to suspend entry of travelers from COVID-19 hotspot India

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 27 08:01 PM

The Philippines will temporarily ban the entry of travelers from India, which is wrestling with a surge of COVID-19 infections blamed the more virulent coronavirus variants, Malacañang said on Tuesday.  Read more »

Mass cremations begin, as India's capital faces deluge of COVID-19 deaths

Danish Siddiqui, Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 04:04 AM

India recorded the world's highest daily tally of 314,835 coronavirus infections on Thursday, with the second wave of the pandemic crushing its weak health infrastructure.  Read more »

Indian mechanic invents 'social distancing' motorbike

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 30 04:02 PM

An Indian school drop-out has built a motorbike with a 1-meter gap between the rider and the passenger to drive home the importance of social distancing in the coronavirus pandemic.  Read more »

One third of humanity under virus lockdown

Bhuvan Bagga and Shaun Tandor, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 25 02:13 PM

India's billion-plus population went into a 3-week lockdown on Wednesday, with a third of the world now under orders to stay indoors, as the coronavirus pandemic forced Japan to postpone the Olympics until next year. Read more »

Millions ordered into lockdown in India over virus fears

Glenda Kwek and Aishwarya Kumar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 23 08:07 AM

Hundreds of millions of Indians were ordered into lockdowns Sunday in the world's second-most populous nation, which stepped up measures to halt the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.  Read more »

Trillion-dollar US economic rescue package crashes in Senate

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 23 09:04 AM

A gargantuan package to rescue the reeling US economy was in peril Sunday as Democrats expressed deep concerns that the Republican-led plan fails to sufficiently help millions of American families devastated by the crisis.   Read more »