Suddenly India looks very vulnerable in the face of corona. The general feeling was that the virus had been tackled in India and it emerged as a “hero ‘to its people. While infection rates soared in the rest of the world, India was relatively safe. On top of that India
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India gets first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
The first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in India on Saturday, according to reports by TASS. The vaccine was delivered to the airport of Hyderabad by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which oversees the project. Sputnik V is the third vaccine to be used in India. Earlier, only
Bangladesh offers emergency medical supplies to India
The government of Bangladesh has offered to dispatch emergency basis medicines and medical equipment for the people of India as the country is crippled with a rapidly deteriorating coronavirus situation. The supplies include approximately 10,000 vials of injectable anti-viral, oral anti-viral, 30,000 PPE kits, and several thousand zinc, calcium, vitamin C
Lessons to learn from India’s Covid
India bans all electoral victory rallies
India's Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday banned all electoral victory rallies in the country. The move comes a day after a higher court held the constitutional body responsible for the ferocious second wave of Covid-19 and threatened to book top poll officials for murdering innocent citizens. The results for assembly elections in
As the viral tsunami waits to arrive
Border with India shut for two weeks
Bangladesh has shut its border with India for any kind of movement except cargoes for two weeks to contain the spread of the Covid-19. India is going through a terrible second wave of Covid-19. Lack of hospitals, oxygen cylinders and healthcare has brought the nation to its knees. So, to limit Covid-19
India Covid patients suffocate from oxygen crisis amid surge
Indian authorities scrambled on Saturday to supply oxygen to Indian hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid low supplies as the country is crippled with the world’s worst coronavirus surge.. The 3,46,786 infections over the past day brought India’s total infections past 16 million, only behind the United States. The Health Ministry
Covid-19: India registers global record of 314K fresh cases in one day
India on Thursday reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections as a grim virus surge in the world’s second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen. The 314,000 fresh infections added in the past
