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Covid-19 Live Updates: India Continues Shattering Virus Records as World Pledges Aid
The Biden administration plans to send AstraZeneca vaccine doses to other nations after a safety review. Vaccinated tourists from the United States can visit Europe this summer.
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People comforted a man infected with Covid-19 who was receiving oxygen while he waited outside a hospital for a bed in Delhi on Sunday.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
As a second wave of the pandemic rages in India, which set a global record new cases for the fifth consecutive day on Monday, countries around the world are trying to help. But their efforts to send oxygen and other critical aid are unlikely to plug enough holes in India’s sinking health care system to end its deadly catastrophe.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Administration to Share AstraZeneca Doses With Other Nations After Safety Review
India continues to set new daily infection records as lower-income countries are left behind richer nations in the inoculation drive. Vaccinated tourists from the United States can visit Europe this summer.
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People getting vaccinated at a government hospital in Mumbai, India, this month.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
The Biden administration, under intense pressure to do more to address the global coronavirus pandemic including a growing humanitarian crisis in India intends to share up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other nations, so long as the doses clear a safety review conducted by the Food and Drug Administration, officials said Monday.