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Indians turn to social media for help as Covid crisis overwhelms the health-care system

Family members of Vijay Raju, who died due to Covid, mourn before his cremation in Giddenahalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, May 13, 2021. Samuel Rajkumar | Reuters As India’s devastating second wave of coronavirus outbreak overwhelmed the health-care system, desperate users turned to social media to seek help from the public as… Read More »

‘There’s a danger that drinking has got much worse during Covid lockdowns’

The word “spike” has become ­so familiar to us in the last year due to spikes in Covid-19 ­infections and admissions to hospitals. But there have been other ones running in parallel – spikes in alcohol deaths. Especially between April and September last year. And the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal… Read More »

Covid vaccine passports: Everything we know so far

In this photo illustration, a message saying “COVID-19 PCR test result has been verified, of Travel Pass app mobile application by IATA (International Air Transport Association) seen displayed on a smartphone screen in front of IATA logo. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Italy, Iceland, Greece and Spain now allow or are opening their… Read More »

UK’s daily Covid infections fall 16% in a week to 1,979 and deaths stay steady

UK’s daily Covid infections fall 16% in a week to 1,979 and deaths stay steady as another five victims are recorded Department of Health statistics showed 1,979 infections were registered in the last 24 hours, up eight per cent There were also five Covid deaths which was one more than at the same time last… Read More »

Chile has one of the world’s best vaccination rates. Covid is surging there anyway

A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19, to a man at the Medalla Milagrosa Church in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 6, 2021. JAVIER TORRES | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Chile’s vaccination campaign against the coronavirus has been one of the world’s quickest and most extensive, but a recent… Read More »