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“India on Wednesday reported a record number of coronavirus cases and deaths, registering more than 200,000 infections for the seventh straight day as a raging outbreak depleted hospital space and resources in the capital, New Delhi.

Just two dozen intensive care beds remained vacant in the city of over 17 million on Wednesday, as health authorities announced more than 295,000 new cases and over 2,000 deaths nationwide. In some cities, crematoriums were running furnaces round-the-clock. In New Delhi, local officials warned that oxygen supplies would expire in hours before a late-night delivery staved off disaster.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/21/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
 
To date, Anand said Canada has already procured 2.7 billion items of PPE, 1.5 billion of which have already been delivered.

“Every hospital is running out (of oxygen). We are running out,” Dr. Sudhanshu Bankata, executive director of Batra Hospital, a leading hospital in India's capital city, told New Delhi Television channel.

When asked what happens when a hospital issues an SOS call, he replied: "Nothing. It's over. It's over."

The situation is so dire, a high court in Delhi even warned it would “hang” anyone who tries to obstruct the delivery of emergency oxygen supplies.

As COVID-19 cases explode in India, Canada ready to help with medical supplies: Anand
 
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COVID-19 Variants Spreading in India Are a Global Concern

“Chanda, Gupta and others are also investigating whether another phenomenon might be at work driving the severe disease in India. It’s possible that people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, but who did not have a severe case of COVID-19, might get even sicker if they are reinfected—a dynamic seen with some other disease-causing viruses, like dengue.

Researchers refer to this phenomenon—in which people are infected and only partially successful in fighting the virus so they continue to harbor the infection for months rather than days—as “suboptimal protection.” In one such patient, who was infected for about four months, Gupta documented the steady changes the virus made as it mutated to become better and better at evading any immune responses directed against it. “Some people can’t clear the virus—they get infected and they can’t get rid of it—so they have some immunity to the virus but the virus learns to live with their immune system, and makes mutations to adapt. And those same mutations adapt again when they infect someone else.””
 
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India Blames a Virus Variant as Its Covid-19 Crisis Deepens

““The current wave of Covid has a different clinical behavior,” said Dr. Sujay Shad, a senior cardiac surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, where two of the doctors needed supplemental oxygen to recover. “It’s affecting young adults. It’s affecting families. It’s a new thing altogether. Two-month-old babies are getting infected.””

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“India’s worries have focused on a homegrown variant called B.1.617. The public, the popular press and many doctors have concluded that it is responsible for the severity of the second wave.

Researchers outside of India say the limited data so far suggests instead that a better-known variant called B.1.1.7 may be a more considerable factor. That variant walloped Britain late last year, hit much of Europe and is now the most common source of new infection in the United States.

“While it’s almost certainly true B.1.617 is playing a role, it’s unclear how much it’s contributing directly to the surge and how that compares to other circulating variants, especially B.1.1.7,” said Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.”

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Mass cremations as India faces a tsunami of Covid-19 deaths (nbcnews.com)

“People die in front of our eyes every day. These are people who should have been saved,” said a volunteer with a group that offers cremations to the poor.

Jyot Jeet has pledged to care for all the dead as if they were his own family, performing traditional if abbreviated funeral rites at a makeshift crematorium in India’s capital.

Sometimes, the devastation overwhelms him. This happened on a recent morning, when he wept alongside a woman as she stood next to the funeral pyre of her husband and their young son.

The father and son had both died of Covid-19.

“It’s a moment that will haunt me forever,” Jeet, 27, told NBC News over the phone from the Seemapuri crematorium, a temporary facility set up to deal with the tsunami of Covid-19 deaths in New Delhi. “People die in front of our eyes every day. These are people who should have been saved.”...
 
UK rate of Indian Covid variant spikes EIGHT-FOLD in a fortnight as cases surge to 400 and PHE confirms there are THREE types of the strain

"The proportion of UK Covid infections caused by the Indian variant spiked eight-fold in a fortnight at the start of April, MailOnline can reveal.

Four hundred cases of the mutant strain - linked to an explosion of cases in India - have been detected in Britain since it was first spotted in February.

While it accounted for just 0.2 per cent of positive tests checked by laboratory scientists at the end of March, this had surged to 1.7 per cent by mid-April.

Health chiefs have now split the B.1.617 variant, as it is known to virologists, into three distinct virus types because it has mutated into similar but genetically different strains.

Scientists can't yet tell whether any of the three spread quicker than the Kent strain, which is dominant in Britain. But they don't think it does based on current evidence, and also don't believe it is any more like to cause serious illness or death.

Early research suggests both the AstraZeneca vaccine, known as Covishield in India, and the Pfizer jab, still work against the variant, as well as the country's home-made jab Covaxin."
 
Indians dance in the streets as they celebrate election results while country is in grips of deadly Covid crisis as hospitals beg for oxygen supplies on day of record deaths

"Indians were dancing in the streets on Sunday as the results of five state elections were announced amid a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections and deaths.

Five Indian states named winners from elections held in March and April that were seen as a test of the impact the devastating second wave of the pandemic is having on support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The vote counting comes as India's coronavirus crisis hit a grim new record on Sunday, with 3,689 deaths recorded - the highest 24-hour rise since the pandemic began."
 
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