– India reeling –
Delhi hospitals issue desperate appeals for oxygen, and 13 Covid patients die in a fire, as India’s healthcare system buckles under a new wave of infections that sees another 330,000 cases and 2,000 deaths in the past 24 hours.
– Russia’s ‘non-working period’ –
President Vladimir Putin backs a call from health officials for a 10-day “non-working” period next month to slow a surge in the virus.
– Tokyo emergency –
Japan calls a new state of emergency in Tokyo and three other regions as the country battles rising infections just three months before the Olympics.
– ‘Not safe’ –
Australia’s diving team says it is “not safe” to travel to Japan as they withdraw from an Olympics test event.