Tuesday 27 July, 2021
Torrential downpours have lashed India’s western coast in recent days causing the worst floods in decades.
At least 32 people have been killed after heavy monsoon rains hit the region.
The death rate is over 50% and it has mainly affected Covid-19 patients.
The Delta variant is now responsible for around 70% of cases in Ireland.
The variant has been detected in 22 samples from across three states.
Danielle McLaughlin was found dead in a popular holiday destination in Goa, India, in March 2017.
India peaked at adding more than 400,000 cases a day in May, but new infections and deaths have declined across the country since then.
Less than 5% of the country has been fully vaccinated.
Heavy rains and high winds lashed the east coast as Cyclone Yaas crossed the coast.
India has recorded 100,000 deaths in just 27 days, after new infections tore through cities and rural areas, and overwhelmed hospitals.
At the current pace, India could overtake the United States in June.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after the storm hit the Gujarat coast.
The storm made landfall in Gujarat state just after 8.30 pm local time.
The country has made headlines around the world recently, in its fight against a deadly surge in infections.
The British Health Secretary said it is “appropriate” to push on with the major easing of lockdown in England.
The World Health Organization also said there was evidence to suggest increased transmissibility of this variant.
The country has confirmed a record 414,188 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
A peak of the current surge is expected later this month.
The surge has pushed India’s already fragile and underfunded health system to the brink.
Modi stands weakened but faces no threats to staying on as the country’s leader until his term ends in 2024.
India today reported more than 392,000 new cases and nearly 3,700 Covid-19 deaths.
India reported more than 400,000 cases in 24 hours today, another global record that accounts for 40% of the world’s infections.
The World Trade Organization will meet again today to discuss the proposal.
Many experts suspect that the true death toll is higher than this.
India’s death toll is set to pass 200,000 after a massive recent surge in Covid cases.
Indian healthcare workers in Ireland are “sacrificing ever seeing some family again” in order to care for people here amid the pandemic.
Standing up for the rights of pharma companies over human rights is “not tenable”, says O’Gorman.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly confirmed the aid package as part of the co-ordinated EU response, as cases in India passed 350,000 a day.
The country has struggled to cope with a huge surge in cases.
India today recorded the world’s highest single-day increase in Covid-19 cases for a fourth day.
The 349,691 confirmed cases over the past day took India’s total to more than 16.9 million, with 192,311 deaths.
Twenty patients died in one night at one New Delhi hospital suffering from oxygen shortages.
The country has confirmed 15.9 million cases of infection, the second highest after the United States, and 184,657 deaths.
It now has the world’s second-highest level of infections.
The country is experiencing a surge in Covid-19 infections.
New Delhi has reported 25,462 cases and 161 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Experts say that missteps stemming from the belief that the pandemic was “over” are coming back to haunt the country.
India reported a new daily record of more than 168,000 cases.
Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, recorded nearly 60,000 cases in the last 24 hours.
The military crackdown in Myanmar has forced scores of refugees over the border into India.
