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• Indian court urges government action as hospitals cry help 2 May 2021 This post has no comments yet

  With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more COVID-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-saving items. ...

• Anthony Fauci recommends India lockdown as cases surge 1 May 2021 This post has one comment

  India should go into lockdown for several weeks to arrest the current devastating surge in Covid cases, top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said in comments published Saturday. ...

• Let India’s morale be kept high in this hour of crisis 29 April 2021 | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

  When bad events take place such as the virus that is spreading now, what is important is that the morale of the people must be kept high and they should be fed with hopes that bright days would not be far away. ...

• Will work to restart the Sino-Tibetan dialogue 25 April 2021 | Namrata Biji Ahuja This post has 4 comments

  PENPA TSERING, the newly elected president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) -- known earlier as the Tibetan government-in-exile -- has plans to approach the Chinese government to facilitate the visit of the Dalai Lama to China. ...

• Coronavirus: “We’re calling it a wave, it’s a Tsunami”, says Delhi High Court 24 April 2021 This post has one comment

  The Delhi High Court asked the Centre about the preparedness to deal with the expected COVID-19 second wave peak in May, terming the massive rise in cases as a "Tsunami", and warned it will "hang" anyone obstructing oxygen supplies. ...

• Coronavirus: Indian hospitals plead for oxygen, country sets virus record 23 April 2021 | Neha Mehrotra and Ashok Sharma This post has no comments yet

  India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. India has confirmed 16 million cases so far. ...

• Coronavirus: India Covid surge hits new record as oxygen runs short 21 April 2021 | Aishwarya Kumar This post has no comments yet

  India's brutal new Covid-19 outbreak set records on Wednesday with more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours, as hospitals in New Delhi ran perilously low on oxygen. India has been in the grips of a second wave of infections. ...

• Coronavirus: Dekiling records 138 cases; settlement under lockdown 19 April 2021 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 10 comments

  The Tibetan settlement of Dekiling has been put under indefinite lockdown after 138 infections of coronavirus cases in the last one week were recorded. Four elders are on ventilator support, and many others showed mild symptoms. ...

• ‘Dire need of beds, oxygen’: India’s capital under siege from COVID-19 18 April 2021 | Mayank Bhardwaj and Aditya Kalra This post has no comments yet

  India’s capital New Delhi recorded 25,500 coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period, with about one in three people tested returning a positive result, its chief minister said, urging the federal government to provide more hospital beds. ...

• Covid death toll passes three million as India cases surge 17 April 2021 | AFP bureaus This post has no comments yet

  The global Covid-19 death toll passed three million on Saturday as the pandemic speeds up despite vaccination campaigns, leading countries like India to impose new lockdowns to fight spiralling infection numbers. ...