Relatives of a person who died of COVID-19 mourn outside a field hospital in Mumbai, India, on May 3, 2021.
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India is in the grips of a health and humanitarian catastrophe, in stark contrast to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s declaration of readiness to fight the pandemic.
A COVID-19 surge has pushed hospitals in India beyond their capacity. A stadium in New Delhi was being used as a makeshift ward on May 2, 2021.
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The process will take months, if it’s even approved. But just the threat of waiving intellectual property rights could spur faster action.
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The Indian government has been keeping an eye out for India’s vaccine producers by not approving any other vaccines, and by letting them charge what they want. It’s the people who are suffering.
A woman and child on a bus in New Delhi.
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There could still be another challenge on constitutional grounds, but there may not be time before the ban ends anyway.
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Various strategies are being pursued to boost worldwide vaccine coverage.
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Increased demand and falling supplies in India risk leaving many countries empty handed.
Relatives performing the last rites during cremation at Nigambodh Ghat crematorium in New Delhi, India.
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The dreadful statistics coming out of India are not just numbers – they relate to people and to suffering.
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The pandemic has highlighted our expat population. And yet we don’t have precise or up-to-date information about Australians overseas.
For Narendra Modi, the Indian premier, the deal is a very welcome distraction.
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What the deal involves and why it matters.
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Providing foreign aid is not always straightforward. But here are some practical ways Australia might be able to help India.
Victorious: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, has been returned to office despite a massive campaign by the GJP to unseat her.
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Both at home and internationally Modi is facing intense scrutiny and criticism as the COVID death toll mounts.
An ironworks in Durgapur, India.
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Countries cannot be expected to all tread the same path to net zero emissions.
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Everyone from human rights experts to famous cricketers are expressing their disgust at the federal government’s India travel ban. Its legality depends on what laws you are looking at.
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We cannot look back in the future and
know we could have done more.
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The catastrophic surge in infections is a result of government mismanagement, cronyism and hubris.
Medical oxygen.
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A microscopic sponge can be used to trap oxygen from the air.
Mobile traders, or pedagang along-along , in Langkat, Sumatra, were able to continue selling fish despite COVID-19 disruptions.
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Local, flexible buyers and networks helped support small-scale seafood supply chains coping with COVID-19 disruptions.
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Pressure is mounting to get COVID vaccines to where they are most needed.
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The range of arranged unions that now exist can be thought of as a spectrum, and younger generations tend to prefer a love connection
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
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COVID has now claimed over 200,000 lives on the subcontinent, and the knock-on effects are likely to be substantial.