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image captionMedical debt piled up as Covid hospitalisations soared in April and May
Hospitalisations soared in India during a deadly second Covid wave. Now, hobbled by patchy insurance, Indians are turning to crowdfunding to pay the steep medical bills, reports Astha Rajvanshi.
Supraja Reddy Yeruva was unable to breathe properly for days after giving birth to her second child in June. The 27-year-old began showing Covid-19 symptoms during her pregnancy, shortly after visiting a hospital for a routine check-up.
Soon, she contracted a severe lung infection and was admitted in the ICU at a private hospital in the southern city of Hyderabad. A month on, she is still there.
Podcasts have boomed ever since the COVID-19 pandemic overturned daily lives across the world, with people favouring the modern-day equivalent of the radio over an umpteenth video call. Several new and worthwhile podcasts concerning Central and Eastern Europe emerged over the last couple of years (often but not always from the region) providing insight, analysis and a (sometimes) lighter take on history and culture.
Nearly a hundred years after radio’s golden age, the medium returns in a more opulent version, with an infinite variety of on-demand shows that could be accessed from anywhere. The golden age of podcasts is undoubtedly a global phenomenon and has not circumvented Central and Eastern Europe.
2021-04-09 02:35:31 GMT2021-04-09 10:35:31(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Yang Shilong, Hu Yousong
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Xinhua) The United States and China need to continue to play ping pong with each other and invest more in the foundation of their consequential bilateral relationship, a leading U.S. expert on China has said.
Talking about the Ping-Pong Diplomacy that helped break the ice between China and the United States, and referring to it as one of the powerful breakthroughs in the early 1970s, Daniel B. Wright, founder, president and CEO of GreenPoint Group said in a recent interview with Xinhua that both sides have benefited from that vision as a way to pierce through the wall by playing ping pong together.
U S , China need to continue to play ping pong with each other: expert ecns.cn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ecns.cn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Abbas Stanikzai says New Delhi has always played a negative role in the war-torn country
Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai, the chief Taliban negotiator, on Sunday said that India has always supported traitors in Afghanistan.
“India has always played a negative role in Afghanistan. India supported traitors in the country,” Stanikzai said in an interview today, according to Hashim Wahdatyar, former director at Institute of Current World Affairs.
Abbas Stanikzai, #Taliban Chief Negotiator in a new interview today: #India has always played a negative role in #Afghanistan. India supported traitors in the country. pic.twitter.com/y36lHxPLZM Hashim Wahdatyar (@HashimWahdatyar) May 16, 2020