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'Insensitive' China Post About India Deleted After Backlash

A Communist Party-linked Weibo account compared a rocket launch to a cremation pyre

(Newser) - A social media account linked to the Communist Party of China sparked outrage with a post that appeared to mock India. A quickly deleted post on Weibo, China’s top social network, showed images of a rocket launch in China and a cremation site in India under text reading “...

Fire Kills 18 in Hospital's COVID Ward

Dozens were rescued from India's Welfare Hospital in Bharuch

(Newser) - A fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in western India killed 18 patients early Saturday, as the country grappling with the worst outbreak yet steps up a vaccination drive for all its adults, even though some states say they don't have enough jabs. The fire broke out in a...

COVID Variants in India Prompt a US Restriction

Travel from the country will be restricted starting next week

(Newser) - The US will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden's administration made the determination...

Army Makes a Move as India's COVID Crisis Spirals

Cases, deaths hit another new record

(Newser) - India’s coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open up its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis created by an acute shortage of beds, medicines, and oxygen. With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported more than 18.7 million since...

Why India&#39;s Surge Is Concerning for Us All
Why India's Surge Could
Be a Problem for the Planet
the rundown
Apr 28, 2021 10:20 AM CDT

Why India's Surge Could Be a Problem for the Planet

Because of variants and vaccines, essentially

(Newser) - Though it's been widely reported that India's COVID-19 death toll is likely an undercount, the count it is putting forth passed the 200,000 mark on Wednesday. CNBC reports the 3,293 deaths logged brings the country's number of coronavirus fatalities to 201,187. New infections numbered...

'Children Are Being Cremated. Newlyweds Are Being Cremated'

Overwhelmed crematoriums need more space for funeral pyres in India

(Newser) - Wondering how severe the COVID-19 situation is in India? Look to its crematoriums, which the BBC reports are so overloaded that funeral pyres are being erected in city parks whose trees are reportedly being cut to provide more wood for the pyres. The BBC points to the Sarai Kale Khan...

Severity of India's 2nd Wave Has Scientists 'Staggered'

People who had mild cases previously may not have had as much protection as thought

(Newser) - India is now registering nearly 350,000 new COVID cases a day, a development that has "staggered scientists," reports Smriti Mallapty at Nature . “I was expecting fresh waves of infection, but I would not have dreamt that it would be this strong,” says Shahid Jameel, a...

India&#39;s COVID Catastrophe Is Only Getting Worse
India's COVID
Catastrophe Is
Only Getting Worse
the rundown
Apr 23, 2021 2:14 PM CDT

India's COVID Catastrophe Is Only Getting Worse

Nation sets another global record in cases, resorts to armed escorts for oxygen

(Newser) - India set the global record for daily COVID cases on Thursday, then broke the record on Friday with more than 332,000 new ones in a 24-hour span. The nation also recorded a national high 2,263 deaths in 24 hours, reports the BBC . The situation is bleak:
  • Hospitals across
...

India's COVID Surge Breaks Global Record

Judges tell hospitals to 'beg, borrow, or steal' oxygen

(Newser) - India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus 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 314,835 infections added in...

Grim Mishap Only Adds to India's COVID Woes

Oxygen supply got cut off to patients, killing 22

(Newser) - The COVID situation in India is bad , and a grim mishap now only adds to the somber headlines coming out of the country. An accident at a hospital in the western state of Maharashtra that was treating COVID patients ended in the deaths of 22 of them, reports the AP...

Death Toll Mounts During India's Surge

Hospitals are filling up, while oxygen and ventilators are running out

(Newser) - Seema Gandotra, sick with the coronavirus, gasped for breath in an ambulance for 10 hours as it tried unsuccessfully at six hospitals in India's sprawling capital to find an open bed. By the time she was admitted, it was too late; the 51-year-old died hours later. Rajiv Tiwari, whose...

Crowds Flock to Ganges as COVID Soars in India

Authorities require negative tests, but the crowds are too big to maintain social distancing

(Newser) - Millions of people gathered and dipped in the Ganges River Monday as a second wave of COVID infections burned through India. Hindus observing Kumbh Mela, a religious festival and pilgrimage, crowded together to pray and bathe. Local police, fearing a stampede if social distancing rules were enforced, did little to...

Worrisome New Variant Turns Up in California

India's 'double mutant' strain is found

(Newser) - One of the world's hot spots for COVID at the moment is India, which registered more than 100,000 new daily cases for the first time on Monday, reports NPR . The surge in India has coincided with the emergence of a mutant strain of the virus there—actually a...

&#39;Double Mutant&#39; COVID Variant Is Found
'Double Mutant'
COVID Variant Is Found
THE RUNDOWN
Mar 24, 2021 9:30 AM CDT

'Double Mutant' COVID Variant Is Found

India analyzes samples, while Brazil sets another death record

(Newser) - There's now a "double mutant" variant of the novel coronavirus spreading in India. The nation's Health Ministry said Wednesday that a double variant—two mutations in the same virus—was detected in the country, along with other variants first discovered in the UK (B.1.1.7),...

Judge to Rape Suspect: Will You Marry Her?

India's top judge is under fire over question he asked in court

(Newser) - Critics who say India's judicial system isn't up to the task of handling rape cases are pointing to comments from the nation's top judge as a prime example. While addressing a 23-year-old man accused of raping and threatening to burn a 16-year-old girl to death, the chief...

Something Weird Is Happening With India's COVID Cases

They're dropping, by a lot

(Newser) - The US logged 125,735 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, according to the CDC's tracker . India, a country whose population is more than four times bigger than our own, logged ... 11,000. Their current case-per-capita rate is about 9 in 1 million, one of the lowest on the planet,...

Tweets by Rihanna, Others Irk India

#FarmersProtest tweets 'neither accurate nor responsible,' government says

(Newser) - A tweet from singer Rihanna has apparently drawn the ire of the Indian government. On Tuesday, the pop star tweeted a news story about ongoing protests by farmers in India over controversial new agriculture laws with the message: “Why aren’t we talking about this #FarmersProtest.” Soon after,...

Tensions High as Indian Farmers Protest New Laws

A hunger strike was planned for Saturday

(Newser) - Indian farmers taking part in more than two months of protest against new agriculture laws began a daylong hunger strike Saturday, the AP reports, as they sought to reaffirm the peaceful nature of their movement following recent violent clashes with police. Farmer leaders said the hunger strike was timed to...

TV Anchor Quit for Harvard Job. Then She Noticed &#39;Anomalies&#39;
TV Anchor Quit for Harvard Job.
Then She Noticed 'Anomalies'
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Jan 23, 2021 3:35 PM CST

TV Anchor Quit for Harvard Job. Then She Noticed 'Anomalies'

Nidhi Razdan of NDTV says she fell victim to a 'sophisticated and coordinated phishing attack'

(Newser) - Nidhi Razdan spent 21 years as the lead anchor of India's NDTV, which one might think would give her the chops to take on a position as an associate professor of journalism at Harvard. In fact, in June she said she was giving up her job to do that...

Nurses Saw Fire in Newborn Unit. For 10 Infants, It Was Too Late

Officials did manage to rescue 7 babies at hospital in Bhandara, India

(Newser) - A fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a government-run hospital in western India early Saturday, killing 10 infants, police and news reports said, per the AP . A preliminary investigation suggests the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit, a police rep says. The Press Trust of...

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