India Covid Crisis

India Covid Crisis

A health worker in PPE coveralls collects swab samples for Covid test.Photo: Hindustan Times

India vaccinates record 75 lakh people on day 1 of new vaccination programme

The Indian governemnt started providing vaccines free of charge to all above 18 from today and took back control of vaccination from states, reversing a policy change that was enforced just about a...

A health official draws a dose of the AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka Jan 29, 2021. REUTERS/FILE

India begins inoculating all adults with free shots

Lilaben Gautambhai Modi, 80, wearing an oxygen mask, sits inside an ambulance as she waits to enter a Covid-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Ahmedabad, India, May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo

India should brace for third Covid-19 wave by Oct, say health experts

Vikas Malik, owner of a dhaba, a small restaurant, sits for a picture in front of his temporarily closed dhaba along a national highway in Murthal, in the northern state of Haryana, India, June 17, 2021. Picture taken on June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

India’s roadside restaurateurs count cost of pandemic

A farmer feeds iceberg lettuce to his buffalo during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at Bhuinj village in Satara district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Rajendra Jadhav/File Photo

As Covid funeral pyres burn, gloom gathers over India’s rural economy

A man suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) receives treatment as a Syringe Infusion Pump, donated by France is seen next to his bed, inside the emergency room of Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, India, May 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

India reports 62,480 new Covid-19 cases, active cases go below 800,000

Vehicles are pictured at a toll post in Mumbai, India, August 13, 2019. REUTERS

Covid deals new blow to foreign carmakers’ Indian dream

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, US February 28, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo

'India has just been devastated by Covid-19': Trump

The rupee's sharp decline and a liquidity crisis in the once-hot shadow banking sector have weakened consumption and investment/ Reuters

India's business activity picks up sharply in June

The Taj Mahal is reflected in a puddle in Agra, India August 9, 2016/ Reuters

Taj Mahal and other monuments, museums in India to welcome tourists from Wednesday

A health worker in PPE coveralls collects swab samples for Covid test.Photo: Hindustan Times

Alarm rises in India over Covid-19 risks as crowds return to malls and rail stations

Relatives react as healthcare workers pull a stretcher carrying the body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at a mortuary in Ahmedabad, India, May 8, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave

India gingerly eases coronavirus rules as new cases dip to two-month low

Mortuary workers load the body of a person, who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), to an ambulance for cremation, at a Hospital in New Delhi, India May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Newly formed four city clusters to intensify India’s Covid-19 genome sequencing efforts