Every night funeral pyres blaze on the banks of the Ganges, a grim symbol of the ferocious Covid-19 wave sparking a health crisis and human tragedy in India that is fast surpassing anything seen last year.Patients are dying while their families search in vain for hospital beds. Supplies of oxygen and medicines are running low, leading to robberies of drugs from hospitals. Crematoriums and…
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The WA Health Department has recorded two new cases of hotel-quarantine acquired COVID-19 today, following confirmation of genome sequencing data.
The variant has been reported in Bengal from where some of the highest numbers of sequencing have been carried out.
As India’s latest COVID-19 wave breaks infection records, Howard Springs records 18 positive cases among returned Australian travellers from India since the weekend.
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