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New Delhi: Highlighting the fact that the country has lost 756 doctors in the first wave and over 146 in the second wave, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has questioned the lack of transparency in reporting Covid-19 deaths, as well as the manpower shortage, drug shortage and the ‘oxygen crisis’ in the country in a scathing press release issued Saturday.
Titled ‘IMA demands health ministry to wake up from slumber and responds to mitigate the growing challenges in Covid Pandemic’, the release said: “Hundreds of deaths happening in big hospitals are shown as non-COVID deaths and crematoriums are showing houseful boards. RTPCR negative, but CT positive cases are not counted. Why are we trying to hide actual deaths?”
Ramadan Concerns Climb; New Curbs on Indian Fliers: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Southeast Asia’s biggest predominantly Muslim nations are tightening movement restrictions to avert a possible surge in Covid-19 infections around the Ramadan holidays. Direct flights from India and Pakistan into Canada were suspended, and the U.K. announced a mandatory quarantine for travelers from India, which is recording record Covid cases and deaths.
China is expected to approve the BioNTech vaccine for distribution before July and will relax its requirement that inbound travelers have a jab made by a Chinese company, two signals that the country’s eager to bring home citizens stranded abroad and kickstart international travel. South Korea reported nearly 800 new coronavirus cases, more than double a Febuary low and the highest overall numbers since mid-January.
Japan Readies for Emergency; Curbs on India Fliers: Virus Update
Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Japan is preparing to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefectures, in an attempt to control the latest outbreak and preserve the country’s plans for the Summer Olympics. Covid deaths continued to climb in India. Canada to suspend direct flights from the subcontinent, and the U.K. announced a mandatory quarantine for incoming travelers from India.
China is expected to approve the BioNTech vaccine for distribution before July and will relax its requirement that inbound travelers have a jab made by a Chinese company, two signals that the country’s eager to bring home citizens stranded abroad and kickstart international travel.
Even Record Death Toll May Hide Extent of India’s Covid Crisis Bloomberg 1 hr ago Upmanyu Trivedi and Sudhi Ranjan Sen
(Bloomberg) Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, underplaying the scale of a resurgence that is overwhelming the country’s medical system.
Several cities across the South Asian nation have reported shocking details of bodies, wrapped in protective gear and identified by hospitals as virus-related deaths, lined up outside crematoriums for hours. Accounts collated by Bloomberg from relatives of the dead and workers and eyewitnesses at crematoriums in at least five cities indicate that the real number of Covid fatalities could be significantly higher than the deaths being reported by local government health departments.