カテゴリー: Infectious diseases
Our South Asia correspondent reflects on a catastrophe that is now affecting the lives of almost everyone in the countryYou recently lost a close colleague, Kakoli Bhattacharya, to Covid-19. Can you tell us about her and the important work that she did…
The crisis in India forced the west to respond. But without an ambitious global plan, other nations may suffer similar fatesAs the number of Covid-19 cases rose dramatically in Europe and the US during the early part of last year, something strange see…
Fears of cover-up as crematoriums record twice the number of Covid fatalities as official death toll Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs India battles through one of the world’s deadliest surges of the Covid-19 pandemic, this…
As the second wave devastates India, there is a Nero-vian feel to it all: a smug, inert state indifferent to the smell of burningIn India’s capital city, citizens are dying in their hospital beds because they can’t breathe. Their lungs, clotted with Co…
Crematoriums in Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land after being inundated by bodies from the surging Covid-19 crisis sweeping India. Crematoriums across the city have been building new platforms after ambula…
India hits another global record; Polish PM announces lifting of lockdown from next weekWorld has failed India, says US expert Dr FauciUK to use NHS app as ‘vaccine passport’ for foreign travel Fears of Covid ‘tsunami’ as India variant drives outbreakS…
Covid-19 outbreak in Pacific nation has forced lockdowns across the country, after the island nation avoided transmission for a year Fijian health officials are bracing for a “tsunami” of Covid-19 cases, after the Indian variant was detected in the Pac…
US’s top infectious disease expert lambasts wealthy countries for failing to provide equitable access to coronavirus vaccines Families of Australians caught in India Covid surge plead for repatriationWhy Australia is under pressure to upgrade advice o…
Grieving relatives of the dead forced to wait hours for a funeral pyre amid an explosion of new Covid casesCrematoriums in Delhi are being inundated with so many bodies that they have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of lan…
This is the only way to prevent the emergence of more dangerous variants – and end the pandemic for goodIt’s easy to forget, as pubs reopen and children fill school playgrounds again, what a brutal winter Britain faced. The second wave took more lives …
Ventilators arrived from the UK early on Tuesday morning and will be followed by oxygen containers from DubaiSee all our coronavirus coverageInternational aid has been arriving in India and a number of countries have pledged to join in the fight agains…
Slow vaccine rollout cited as the difference between the two countries, both of which have virtually no community coronavirus casesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has been dethroned for the first time as the best place to be during Covid 19…
Analysis: Experts believe a number of things coalesced to cause the world’s worst coronavirus outbreakCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia is now identifying more than 1 million coronavirus cases every three days, with many…
Lawmakers and rights activists say removals risk people’s health and harms freedom of speechThe removal of dozens of tweets seen to be critical of the Indian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is putting people’s health at risk and quash…
Just 1.3% of Japan’s population have received at least first dose, with less than 90 days until Games Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than two months after it began its vaccine rollout, Japan still lags behind the rest …