Aug 07 India surpasses 2 million cases as health volunteers strike By Associated Press Even as India has maintained comparatively low mortality rates, the disease has spread widely across the country, with the burden shifting in recent weeks from cities with robust health systems to rural areas. Continue reading
Aug 02 Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan recovers from coronavirus By Associated Press His actor son, Abhishek Bachchan, who is still in the Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital with the virus, said in a tweet that his father has tested negative and will rest at home. Both were hospitalized on July 11. Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch 6:39 Why India's coronavirus numbers probably underestimate the country's outbreak By Fred de Sam Lazaro India has reported more than 1 million confirmed coronavirus infections -- a number exceeded only by the U.S. and Brazil. But experts say that both cases and deaths in the country are likely underestimates due to gaps in testing and… Continue watching
Jul 21 Over 22 percent of people in Delhi have had virus, study indicates By Emily Schmall, Aniruddha Ghosal, Associated Press A new study indicates that far more people have been infected with the coronavirus in India's capital region than official figures show. The National Center for Disease Control says it tested more than 21,000 people selected randomly across Delhi. Continue reading
Jul 18 Breathtaking virus numbers show normal life still far away By Cara Anna, Associated Press The World Health Organization reported a single-day record of new infections at over 237,000. Daily death tolls have been reaching new highs in several U.S. states and India’s infections are over 1 million. Experts believe the true numbers around the… Continue reading
Jul 17 Countries across the globe battle flare-ups of COVID-19 By Elaine Kurtenbach, Nomaan Merchant, Menelaos Hadjicostis, Associated Press Outbreaks in the world’s latest hot spots pushed the confirmed global case tally toward 14 million on Friday. Governments are frantically trying to prevent and put down fresh outbreaks and keep their economies running as the pandemic accelerates in some… Continue reading
Jul 11 Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has coronavirus By Associated Press Amitabh Bachchan says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is hospitalized in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital. Bachchan has acted in more than 200 Indian films over the past five decades. He is also a former politician… Continue reading
Jul 11 Virus cases up sharply in Africa, India as inequality stings By Cara Anna, Associated Press South Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled in just two weeks to a quarter-million, and India on Saturday saw its biggest daily spike as its infections passed 800,000. The surging cases are raising sharp concerns about unequal treatment in the… Continue reading
Jul 04 English pubs reopen but little normal elsewhere in the world By Cara Anna, Associated Press More than 11 million people around the world are known to have been infected since the pandemic began, 2.7 million of those in the U.S., according to the Johns Hopkins data. With shortages of testing materials, the real number of… Continue reading
Jun 26 India's social inequalities reflected in coronavirus care By Emily Schmall, Associated Press Though India’s leaders have promised coronavirus testing and care for all who need it, regardless of income, treatment options are as stratified and unequal as the country itself. Continue reading