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1 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
📍Israel 🇮🇱 Health Ministry has identified 41 new cases of Indian #COVID19 variant, which experts say may be more contagious, including 4 who were vaccinated. 24 from abroad, but other 17 contracted via community transmission, including 5 schoolchildren.🧵
haaretz.com/israel-news/do…
2) Health Ministry statement said that new restrictions which would forbid Israelis from traveling to countries with high infection rates (save for exceptional cases) are awaiting approval from the relevant ministries before it can be sent to government approval.
3) Israelis returning from these countries would also need to quarantine, even if they have been vaccinated against or recovered from COVID-19. Foreign nationals from these countries would also not be allowed to enter Israel
4) “ Indian variant is of concern to experts because it consist of two mutations of its protein, which could make it more resistant to the coronavirus vaccine.”
5) “Last month, the Indian Health Ministry reported on a strain of the virus that includes two genetic changes and constitutes a kind of “union” of two variants previously known as E484Q and L452R.”

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2 May
India PM Narendra Modi's #COVID19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister @drharshvardhan assured the public that 🇮🇳 pandemic had reached the “endgame.”

Now, a 2nd wave has made India the worst-hit country in the world. Shortages abound. 🧵
nytimes.com/2021/05/01/wor… Image
2) Overconfidence and missteps contributed to the country’s devastating second wave, his critics say, tarnishing the prime minister’s aura of political invulnerability.
3) @narendramodi boasted to global leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus. India “saved humanity from a big disaster by containing corona effectively,” Mr. Modi told a virtual gathering at the @wef in late January.
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1 May
Overlooked—India’s overworked and underpaid crematorium workers, who often face caste-based discrimination as Dalits, are the invisible warriors of India’s #COVID19 crisis. The poorly paid & underappreciated undertakers in the overflowing crematoriums.🧵
vice.com/en/article/y3d… Image
2) The Dalit community is considered the lowest in the Hindu caste system, which is over 3,000 years old and divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups dictating their standing in Indian society.
3) They work 12-hour shifts, earning only Rs 10,000 ($134) a month, and can easily be spotted in crematoriums: unlike the families of the deceased, they rarely wear personal protective gear (PPE).
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1 May
Boosters for variants—UK 🇬🇧 has now ordered 60 million more doses to support a COVID-19 booster vaccination programme starting in the autumn, with Health Minister Hancock adding that the biggest risk to 🇬🇧 rollout so far was a new variant. #COVID19
reuters.com/world/uk/brita…
2) "We're working on our plans for booster shots," Hancock said.

"These further 60 million doses will be used, alongside others, as part of our booster programme from later this year, so we can protect the progress that we've all made."
3) “Earlier on Wednesday, Public Health England said the details of any booster programme were still being worked out, and it would be designed primarily with new variants in mind.
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1 May
Liquid oxygen—we know a major user of liquid oxygen is actually the space industry. Has anyone asked why can’t major rocket companies & space programs pause their rocket 🚀 launches that use liquid oxygen & divert them to India🇮🇳? Curious.

Asking for 1.3 billion people. #COVID19
2) I’m hearing comments about “medical grade oxygen”, but is that true? And can it not be purified somehow? I’m honestly wondering.
3) if it’s just oxygen tanks and the logistical transport, then surely equipment can be sent to India. But some articles say it’s the supply issue too.

google.com/amp/s/theprint…
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1 May
India 🇮🇳 recorded over 400,000 cases for the first time. Just 3 weeks ago, India only logged 100k a day. Quadrupling in 3 weeks is a log, even if it’s a dramatic undercount. The 3523 single day deaths is also a substantial undercount. #COVID19 #CovidIndia
ndtv.com/india-news/cor…
2) It’s time— to waive the vaccine patents. Time is of the essence. Life is of the essence.
3) Children are being orphaned by this humanitarian crisis in India. We cannot sit around. Waive the damn patents.
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1 May
Tales from the frontline in India 🇮🇳—

A doctor in Mumbai says hospital admissions are so high and hospital situation so bad that “ward rounds are now scenes from Dante’s “Inferno”’ 👀 #COVID19

ft.com/content/ad200d…
2) the 2nd wave “struck with the ferocity of a tidal wave, making the events of 2020 seem like a ripple in a bathtub. There seems little doubt that this wave is caused by a variant, probably the now dreaded Indian B.1.617 with two mutations — the E484Q and L452R.”
3) “As a physician I can vouch that this strain seems far more infectious, is probably more lethal, and seems to affect the young more frequently than the initial wave. Younger patients between the ages of 26-44 now account for about 40% of all cases and almost 10% of deaths.”
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