India s COVID tsunami leaves bodies piling up as oxygen, medicines, vaccines and hospital beds run short By Arshad R. Zargar Countries worldwide struggling to contain coronavirus
New Delhi Most hospitals are full. In some cases, two patients share a bed. Stocks of oxygen, medicines and vaccines are all running out. Doctors and nurses are overworked. Thousands of patients are dying every day, leaving bodies to pile up outside crematoriums and graveyards. There s panic in the air as coronavirus cases multiply across India at the most fearsome rate since the pandemic struck more than a year ago.
India s second wave really started gaining steam this month, with the daily count of new infections repeatedly setting new records throughout April. The total number of COVID-19 cases reported in India now stands at over 15 million. More than 1.5 million of those infections have been reported in the last seven days alone. The daily average is now about 220,000 new ca
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India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority has paused the rollout of a national SMS “scrubbing” service and blamed business for the delay.
The authority, aka TRAI, introduced the scrubbing service to curb text spam in India, where mobile phone users can expect a couple of unsolicited messages every day according to spam-blocking app Truecaller.
India’s solution to the scourge is a regime that requires senders of bulk messages register with carriers and TRAI, which operates a blockchain-based application that looks for unexpected messages in transit and scrubs them before they reach networks or users.