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India’s daily COVID-19 cases rise by record 414,188
India’s healthcare system is crumbling under the weight of COVID-19 patients, with hospitals running out of beds and medical oxygen. Morgues and crematoriums can not handle the number of dead and makeshift funeral pyres burn in parks and carparks. Although northern and western India bear the brunt of the disease, the share of the five southern states in the country’s daily surge in infections rose from 28% to 33% in the first seven days of May, data shows.
Tragic Covid-19 situation in India should raise alarm bells for all of us: UNICEF
“Family members of patients are pleading for help as the region reels under an acute shortage of medical-grade oxygen. Exhausted health workers are being pushed to the brink of collapse. We are faced with a real possibility that our health systems will be strained to a breaking point – leading to even more loss of life.”
IRDA asks insurers to launch Standard Domestic Travel Insurance Policy by July 1
A Standard Domestic Travel Insurance Policy will have Room Rent, Boarding, Nursing Expenses all inclusive as provided by the Hospital / Nursing Home up to 2 per cent of the sum insured subject to maximum of Rs.10000/- per day, are allowed in the policy.
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) charges/ Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) charges all inclusive as provided by the Hospital / Nursing Home up to 4 per cent of the sum insured subject to maximum of Rs.20,000/- per day, can availed by a customer..
India reports highest-ever single-day spike with 4,12,262 new COVID-19 cases, 3,980 deaths
As many as 3,980 patients succumbed to the infection during the last 24 hours, taking the total COVID-related death toll to 2,30,168. India registered a total of 3,29,113 recoveries in the last 24 hours. The total number of recoveries in the country now stands at 1,72,80,844.
India’s struggle to track new Covid-19 variants could worsen the crisis
Variants are already outracing vaccination progress in many parts of the world, fueling bigger outbreaks that spread faster. While some rich nations that secured effective vaccines early have seen their epidemics wane, the virus is still spreading like wildfire in developing economies, prolonging the pandemic.
PIL for vaccination centres at RWAs, NGOs offices; HC asks authorities to treat it as representation
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh asked the authorities concerned to treat the plea as a representation and take a decision in accordance with the law, rules, regulations and government policy applicable to the case.
‘Human catastrophe’ as India’s Covid-19 surge spreads to Nepal
“What is happening in India right now is a horrifying preview of Nepal’s future if we cannot contain this latest Covid surge that is claiming more lives by the minute,” said Netra Prasad Timsina, chair of the Nepal Red Cross.
US reissues travel advisory urges Americans not to travel to India
“Do not travel to India due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution due to crime and terrorism,” the State Department said on Wednesday in its latest travel advisory that looked identical to the one issued on April 28.
Both the travel advisory has been marked ‘Level 4’ which is the highest warning level.
India’s fiscal response to COVID conservative, need large stimulus: Report
Azim Premji University’s .report, ‘State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid-19,’ said the impacts of the second wave are still unfolding and may be as large, or larger than the first one.
Further, coming as it does on the back of depleted savings, debt, and reduced fallback options, the second wave can lead to potentially larger impacts on work, incomes, food security, health and education, the report said.
COVID-19 resurgence bringing renewed challenges for India; GDP growth seen at 9.5 pc: Fitch
With 8.5 hospital beds per 10,000 population and eight physicians per 10,000, the country’s healthcare sector is not equipped for such a crisis. Hospitals across the country have filled to capacity and in addition to oxygen running out, intensive care units are operating at full capacity and nearly all in the country ventilators are in use.