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India reports 30,773 new COVID cases as it seeks to welcome back tourists

Reuters
Posted at Sep 19 08:34 PM

NEW DELHI - India on Sunday reported 30,773 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 33.4 million, as it seeks to reopen the country to overseas tourists. Read more »

India worried about complacency over second COVID dose

Krishna N. Das, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 14 07:49 AM

India has administered more than 744 million vaccine doses, with 60% of its 944 million adults getting a first shot. Read more »

Indian court backs shorter dose gap for those paying for AstraZeneca vaccine

Jose Devasia, Reuters
Posted at Sep 07 04:28 PM

An Indian court has ordered the government to offer a choice of a shorter four-week gap between doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to those paying for the shots. Read more »

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 vaccinates 8.8 million in 24 hours, a near record

Neha Arora and Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters
Posted at Aug 18 03:05 AM

Experts have said India needs to administer 10 million doses a day to achieve its aim of inoculating all adults by December. Read more »

COVID-19 locks out India's poor students

Nivrita Ganguly, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 05 02:57 PM

The pandemic and the heavy blow to the Indian economy -- and to the poor who have suffered most of all -- have only made things worse. Read more »

Global COVID-19 cases top 200 million

Kyodo News
Updated as of Aug 05 09:31 AM

The cumulative worldwide total of infections with COVID-19 has surpassed 200 million as the Delta variant continues to rage in many countries. Read more »

India reports 3,998 COVID-19 deaths after state corrects its data

Reuters
Posted at Jul 21 03:20 PM

India reported its highest death toll in a month on Wednesday - at nearly 4,000 - after its richest state reconciled its death count with 3,509 previously unreported fatalities, the health ministry said. Read more »

India's COVID-19 deaths 10 times higher than reported: study

Glenda Kwek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 20 08:45 PM

India's coronavirus death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, likely making it the country's worst humanitarian disaster since independence, a US research group said Tuesday. Read more »

India's COVID-19 infection rate edges up, with second wave yet to abate

Neha Arora and Ankur Banerjee, Reuters
Posted at Jul 15 09:12 PM

NEW DELHI - A rise in India's COVID-19 infection rate is worrying authorities who are concerned that pilgrimages and tourism could prove to be "superspreader" events in the battle to douse a devastating second wave of infections that has killed thousands. Read more »

Rural India sinks deeper into debt as COVID-19 wipes out work

Aftab Ahmed and Saurabh Sharma, Reuters
Posted at Jul 06 01:40 PM

The coronavirus and a lockdown aimed at stopping it last year saw millions of people thrown out of jobs in cities and towns and forced back to villages in India, and ever higher levels of debt.   Read more »

India's death toll from coronavirus crosses 400,000

Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 03:38 PM

India reached the grim milestone of 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, half of them during a second wave in the past few months that overwhelmed the health care system and crematoriums. Read more »

Lack of flights a challenge in repatriating OFWs stranded due to travel ban: official

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 04:47 PM

A lack of flights poses a challenge to the repatriation of oversea Filipino workers who are stranded in 7 countries covered by a travel ban that aims to contain the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Tuesday.    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 »

'Contact embassy, manning agency,' Palace tells OFWs stranded due to travel ban

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 21 03:47 PM

Overseas Filipino workers who want to come home to the Philippines, despite a travel ban to keep out the more contagious Delta COVID-19 variant, should reach out to their manning agencies or the embassy in their respective areas, Malacañang said on Monday.  Read more »

India's famed Taj Mahal reopens for tourists as COVID-19 curbs ease

Uday Sampath Kumar, Reuters
Posted at Jun 16 04:28 PM

India's iconic Taj Mahal reopened to the public on Wednesday as the country, still reeling from a disastrous second wave of the pandemic, rushes to lift restrictions in a bid to revitalize its economy. Read more »

Philippines extends ban on travelers from India, 6 other areas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 11:30 PM

The Philippines is extending until the end of June a travel ban that aims to keep out the Delta COVID-19 variant first detected in India, Malacañang said on Monday.  Read more »

India records world's highest daily COVID-19 deaths after state revises numbers

Reuters
Posted at Jun 10 01:45 PM

India reported on Thursday the highest single-day death toll from COVID-19 in the world, at 6,148, after a big eastern state revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at home or in private hospitals. Read more »

How India's most crowded city beat the odds, and the virus

Ammu Kannampilly, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 09 02:51 PM

When COVID-19 arrived in India, few places looked as vulnerable as Mumbai. But a year on, South Asia's most crowded city has surprised many by tackling a vicious second wave with considerable success. 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 »