Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday that India has an understanding with more than 100 countries on mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccine certificates that allow Indians to travel with reduced inconvenience.
India Coronavirus Dispatch: Cases drop to less than 40,000 after 102 days business-standard.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from business-standard.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
May 7, 2021
It has been eight weeks since India’s second Covid-19 wave began, and millions of Indians continue their frantic search for basic healthcare facilities oxygen, medicines, hospital beds. Once lauded for its low death rate, the country may be staring at an orphan crisis because of mass fatalities.
India recorded 414,188 new Covid-19 cases and 3,915 deaths yesterday (May 6). At the start of the second wave around March 15, India was recording approximately 25,000 cases and 150 deaths a day.
While India’s total Covid-19 fatalities were nearly 160,000 in one year of the pandemic till mid-March, it added 80,000 deaths to its tally since then.
Opinion: Modi Sarkar Needs To Act Like A Government, Not A WhatsApp Group Opinion: Modi
Updated: May 06, 2021 6:54 pm IST
Arun Shourie once said the Modi Government manages the headlines, not the economy. He was right, as a quick look at economic growth over the past few years can tell you. Still, what s the economy? Just jobs and livelihoods, right? It isn t lives. Perhaps not even Shourie would have expected that when it comes to a deadly pandemic, the government would again be more focused on the headlines than on saving Indians lives.
Certainly, that seems to be the impression we re left with, especially over the past week. The