India G7 team in COVID scare as crisis deepens back home
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May 6, 2021
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign minister was forced to abandon face-to-face G7 meetings on the pandemic in London on Wednesday because he may have been exposed to COVID-19, as the crisis deepened back home with his nation’s daily death toll hitting a record at almost 3,800.The coronavirus continues to ravage India but in Europe and the United States, mass vaccination programmes have allowed the easing of many restrictions. Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was in Britain for talks with counterparts from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies but announced he would hold his meetings virtually after possible exposure to virus cases.
May 06, 2021
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Men wearing protective suits stand next to the body of their relative, who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), before her cremation at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, on May 4, 2021.
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A top scientific adviser to the Indian government warned on Wednesday (May 5) the country would inevitably face further waves of the coronavirus pandemic, as almost 4,000 people died in the space of a day.
With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to a deadly second surge in infections, the World Health Organisation said in a weekly report that India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week and a quarter of the deaths.
Covid in India: Top govt scientist warns of further waves
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Phase 3 inevitable due the high levels of circulating virus, K. Vijay Raghavan says.
A top scientific adviser to the Indian government warned today the country would inevitably face further waves of the coronavirus pandemic, as almost 4,000 people died in the space of a day.
With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to a deadly second surge in infections, the World Health Organisation said in a weekly report that India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week and a quarter of the deaths.
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign minister was forced to abandon face-to-face G7 meetings on the pandemic in London on Wednesday because he may have been exposed to Covid-19, as the crisis deepened back home with his nation’s daily death toll hitting a record at almost 3,800.The coronavirus continues to ravage India but in Europe and the United States mass vaccination programmes have allowed the easing of many restrictions.
Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was in Britain for talks with counterparts from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies but announced he would hold his meetings virtually after possible exposure to virus cases.