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How India became the world’s COVID-19 capital Day and night, the ambulance sirens sound on Indian streets thousands of kilometers apart. Over the last month, the coronavirus pandemic has turned into a tidal wave. Hospitals overrun by floods of patients, people dying for want of an oxygen...

Modi Says Virus Is Rapidly Spreading in India’s Rural Areas Bibhudatta PradhanMay 14, 2021, 5:38 AM EDT India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Covid-19 was spreading rapidly in rural areas and asked villagers in the world’s second-most populous nation to take precautions. “You should take...

Feku Speaks: Modi Sounds Alarm on COVID Crisis, Says Country Is 'on War Footing' By Katherine Fung On 5/14/21 at 5:10 PM EDT Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sounding the alarm on the country's worsening COVID-19 crisis as another 4,000 people died from the virus for a third consecutive...

I thought India was a pharmaceutical and vaccine superpower? It can't make a vaccine without American technology? Why Biden’s Push for Vaccine Patent Waivers Won’t Save India The Biden administration’s decision to throw its weight behind a proposal for a temporary waiver of COVID-19 vaccine...

Indian Generals Blast Government for Withholding Life-Saving Army Aid From Its Own People Fri, May 14, 2021, 4:56 AM NEW DELHI—With India ravaged by an unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19 virus—and its health-care system on its knees—some public health and former military officials are...

Seriously, it's eerie how quiet our Indians members have been lately. They can't all be in hospitals.

Where are they? I don't see anyone here doing damage control. Are they all dying of covid?

Lancet editorial slams Modi govt on India's COVID crisis: 'Stifling criticism inexcusable' In a scathing editorial, top scientific journal editorial Lancet on Saturday, criticised the Modi govt's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Suchitra Karthikeyan 9th May, 2021 08:38 IST...

India's COVID-19 emergency The scenes of suffering in India are hard to comprehend. As of May 4, more than 20·2 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported, with a rolling average of 378 000 cases a day, together with more than 222 000 deaths, which experts believe are likely to be substantial...

What do our Indian members think of this?