One of India’s largest film studios is holding back the release of its big, long-delayed Bollywood features, betting that movie halls will reopen by year-end and help resuscitate the hard-hit industry after months of closures due to Covid-19. Reliance Big Entertainment Pvt., which has collaborated with Steven Spielberg and is owned by embattled tycoon Anil Ambani, is hoping to release two Hindi-language films in theaters in the next three months, Chief Executive Officer Shibasish Sarkar said in an interview. Theatrical debuts of “83” charting the journey of India’s cricket world cup victory in the title year and the action flick “Sooryavanshi” have been pushed back multiple times since 2020.
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Mucormycosis, also called the “black fungus” infection, can damage the sinuses or lungs when the spores are inhaled, the Indian Council of Medical Research said in a health advisory issued Sunday. Patients who have been on medication for some time or had prolonged stays in the ICU are particularly susceptible, the ICMR said. The rare but deadly infection can kill and maim patients, with some Covid sufferers losing their upper jaws and eyes after contracting it, according to local media reports.
With India reporting more than 300,000 new virus infections for the past 19 days straight, doctors across emergency rooms are seeing a rash of such cases an unintended consequence of intensive medical intervention that sometimes includes oxygen tubes through the nose. The fungus can attack through the respiratory tract, and was present in India before the Covid pandemic, according to the New York Times. India’s health system has been stretched to breaking point by
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The South Asian nation, which has the second-largest outbreak globally, reported 314,835 new infections, pushing the total to almost 16 million cases. The U.S., the worst-hit country, saw a peak of 314,312 cases on Dec. 21 and has only reported more than 300,000 infections on two days since the onset of the pandemic. Cases in America are now on a downward trend helped in part by aggressive vaccinations.
The deteriorating situation in India shows how the pandemic crisis has shifted firmly to the developing world, where variants are threatening containment measures and there are a lack of vaccines after supplies were taken up by richer nations.
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With Indiaâs daily tally of COVID-19 infections surging by records, public health experts worry that a new â possibly more virulent â coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people.
The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to be fueling Indiaâs deadlier new wave of cases that has made it the worldâs second worst-hit country, surpassing Brazil again, and has already begun to overwhelm its hospitals and crematoriums. India has reported more than 14.5 million COVID cases so far and more than 175,600 fatalities.
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With Indiaâs daily tally of COVID-19 infections surging by records, public health experts worry that a new â possibly more virulent â coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people.
The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to be fueling Indiaâs deadlier new wave of cases that has made it the worldâs second worst-hit country, surpassing Brazil again, and has already begun to overwhelm its hospitals and crematoriums. India has reported more than 14.5 million COVID-19 cases so far and more than 175,600 fatalities.
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