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What’s the use of a hospital bed now? He is already dead. All are dead. The Administration is hopeless, useless,” angry shouts of parents and relatives which pierce the country’s comatose dark skies. Over 140 choked to death due to lack of oxygen in various Delhi, UP and Haryana hospitals as they ‘begged” the Administration and corporates to expedite replenishments of the elixir of life even as crematoriums ran out of space. Bringing India once again face to face with the bitter truth: The aam aadmi translates into merely a sterile statistic! With 3,52,991 people testing positive for Covid 19 Monday India’s total tally has climbed to 1,73,13,163 with a record 2,812 new fatalities. While active cases crossed the 28-lakh mark (16.25%), death toll increased to 1,95,123 (1.3%) with the recovery rate dropping to 82.62 %. Worse, active infections might touch 38- 48 lakhs mid-May warn scientists as the coming four weeks are critical. Kudos to the Madras High C
Sonia Gandhi seeks all-party, Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings over COVID-19 situation ANI | Updated: May 07, 2021 14:10 IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi, in its parliamentary party meeting on Friday, demanded an all-party meeting and a meeting of Parliament Standing Committee on Health regarding the COVID-19 situation in the country.
The meeting is being held under the chairmanship of Gandhi through video conferencing.
According to sources, the meeting started with paying tribute to all former Members of Parliament (MPs), including former President Pranab Mukherjee, Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora, Tarun Gogoi, who have recently passed away.
Earlier, the Congress President had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging the new COVID-19 vaccination policy was not only discriminatory but also a complete abandonment of the youth and urged the government to reverse the ill-consider
3 ways Canada can take action as a global health leader on COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available for use here and in a few other high-income countries, but people living elsewhere will have to wait and that raises troubling issues from a global health perspective, writes Jason Nickerson.
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Arrival of vaccines is cause to celebrate, but international roll-out is not shaping up to be equitable
Jason Nickerson · for CBC News Opinion ·
Posted: Dec 13, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available for use here and in a few other high-income nations, but people living elsewhere will have to wait. From a global health perspective that raises some hard questions for Canada, which has committed publicly to ensuring affordable and equitable access. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)