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June 17, 2021 at 9:10 am

These twins are 5 years old. They lost both parents to COVID-19.

Although India's situation is extreme, the country is far from alone. The pandemic has killed parents of young children around the world. Researchers in the...

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May 8, 2021 at 4:16 am

In India’s surge, a religious gathering attended by millions helped COVID spread

The precise role of the Hindu religious festival in India's raging outbreak is impossible to know in the absence of contact tracing. But the event...

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May 1, 2021 at 4:08 am

India sets pandemic record with more than 400,000 new cases; Fauci says crisis is ‘like a war’

The soaring number of cases prompted the United States to restrict travel from India on Friday. Dozens of countries have begun sending aid to bolster...

April 24, 2021 at 12:50 pm

Inside a Delhi hospital, oxygen runs fatally short as covid cases mount

Experts believe the influence of new variants, changes in people's behavior and complacency on the part of the government have combined to produce a tidal...

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February 25, 2021 at 9:08 am

India and Pakistan announce cease-fire for first time in nearly 20 years

NEW DELHI — India and Pakistan announced Thursday that their armed forces would cease firing across their shared border, the first such step since 2003...

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January 16, 2021 at 4:40 am

India’s vaccination effort begins despite efficacy concerns

NEW DELHI - Early on Saturday, Kartik Naik waited in line with doctors, nurses and medical students in a small city on India's eastern coast,...

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December 8, 2020 at 2:58 am

It’s official: Mount Everest just got a little bit higher

KATHMANDU, Nepal - The world's highest peak just became a tiny bit higher. Nepal and China, the two countries that share a border on Mount...

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An elderly farmer shouts slogans as others listen to a speaker as they block a major highway during a protest to abolish new farming laws they say will result in exploitation by corporations, eventually rendering them landless, at the Delhi-Haryana state border, India, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The busy, nonstop, arterial highways that connect most northern Indian towns to this city of 29 million people, now beat to the rhythm of never-heard-before cries of â€œInquilab Zindabadâ€ (â€œLong live the revolutionâ€). Tens and thousands of farmers, with colorful distinctive turbans and long, flowing beards, have descended upon its borders where they commandeer wide swathes of roads. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) AQXS101 AQXS101

December 4, 2020 at 11:46 am

Why India’s farmers are in revolt in the middle of a pandemic

Farmers have cut off major entrances into Delhi in massive protests against new laws that deregulate the buying and selling of agricultural goods. The government...

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A health worker screens people for COVID-19 symptoms at Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Monday, July 6, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

September 26, 2020 at 10:30 am

As coronavirus cases soar, India’s hospitals race to secure badly needed oxygen

NEW DELHI — When the head of a hospital in a suburb of Mumbai, also known as Bombay, called her oxygen supplier this month, he...

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July 17, 2020 at 11:06 am

As India skyrockets past 1 million coronavirus cases, a mystery surrounds death toll

NEW DELHI — As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates in the world's second-most populous nation, India has crossed a once-unthinkable threshold: 1 million confirmed cases, joining...

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