The United States has yielded to India a dark statistic of the global pandemic – India has recorded the highest single-day death toll. Latest COVID-19 news.
Nabila Sadiq, 38, died on Monday from Covid weeks after begging for ICU bed
Indian professor took to Twitter on May 4 to ask for an ICU bed, which she got
But her lungs were damaged when she got to hospital and she died on Monday
India had 276,110 Covid infections on Thursday, while daily deaths rose by 3,874
First Thing: pause after call for de-escalation raises hopes of Israel-Gaza ceasefire Miranda Bryant
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Israel and Palestinian militants stopped firing for several hours early this morning after Joe Biden called for “a significant de-escalation”.
The eight-hour pause in attacks – the longest since the start of the conflict 11 days ago – came as efforts to secure a ceasefire appeared to gain momentum. But the attacks later restarted when air-raid sirens sounded in Israel near Gaza and Israel’s military said a fighter jet had hit a rocket launcher.
France, which has circulated a UN resolution, has put pressure on the US to demand a truce and issued a joint statement with Egypt and Jordan calling for an immediate ceasefire. In a phone call on Wednesday, the US president told the Israeli prime minister that he expected “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire”.
BBC News
By Geeta Pandey
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image captionFuneral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad, where bodies have been washing downstream for days
India s holiest river, the Ganges, has been swollen with bodies in recent days.
Hundreds of corpses have been found floating in the river or buried in the sand of its banks. Those who live close to where they have washed up, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, fear they are Covid-19 victims.
India has been overwhelmed by a devastating second wave of the pandemic in recent weeks. It has recorded more than 25 million cases and 275,000 deaths, but experts say the real death toll is several times higher.
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