Crematoriums are working around the clock in many Indian cities, including New Delhi and Bangalore, to cope with increasing Covid-19 fatalities, as grieving families wait for hours to cremate their deceased relatives
📸 Jewel Samad in Delhi and Manjunath Kiran in Bangalore
First shipment of Covid medical supplies from the UK to India, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived today.
India's foreign ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi calls it "international cooperation at work"
📸 Oxygen supplies in India are desperately low
#BREAKING Australia bans passenger flights from India until May 15: PM
The first emergency medical supplies have begun to trickle into Covid-stricken India as part of a global campaign to staunch a catastrophic wave in the latest pandemic hotspot, with the US also pledging to export millions of AstraZeneca vaccines
VIDEO: Frantic search for antiviral drugs in India.
Chaotic scenes outside a New Delhi medical store selling remdesivir as family members of hospitalised Covid-19 patients desperately search for the antiviral drug
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#UPDATE Britain's Electoral Commission on Wednesday announced a formal investigation into how Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid for a lavish makeover of his Downing Street flat, seriously escalating a simmering scandal
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Johnson says ratification will provide "stability" in UK-EU relations
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