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Last Updated: May 11, 2021, 11:20 PM IST
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The images of a gasping populace and the forest-fire of pyres are not selective images. They provide a tragic, real picture that has, rightly, stirred many governments and private individuals to provide medical supplies and money required to fight this scourge.
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The writer is a journalist and columnist
The sight of planeloads of medical equipment and containers of liquid oxygen being craned from ship to shore are glimmers of reassurance in the dark landscape of loss. But it would be criminal if GoI makes as much of a mess disbursing this humanitarian aid as it has in controlling the pandemic.
More than 400,000 COVID cases on second consecutive day in India
National
May 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: As India s devastating COVID-19 crisis mounted last month, countries around the world began sending emergency medical supplies to help stem the surge.
On Thursday, India reported 3,920 more deaths from coronavirus and 414,433 new infections. The new death toll is 234,071.
Planeloads of ventilators, medicines and oxygen equipment began pouring into India, from countries including the UK and the US, at the start of last week. By Sunday, some 300 tonnes of supplies on 25 flights had arrived at Delhi International Airport alone. But - as cases continue to reach record levels across the country - concerns are mounting about delays in supplying the aid to those most in need, international media reported. For several days, much of the cargo sat in airport hangars as hospitals called for more support. The supplies did not begin being distributed until as late as Monday evening - more than
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