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US to restrict travel from India over COVID starting Tuesday

The US will restrict travel from India citing a devastating rise in COVID infections and the emergence of new variants.

France

France reports three cases of Indian COVID-19 variant

All three cases involve people who have recently come back from India, the ministry said in a statement released late on Thursday.

India

COVID-19: India records new case high as Brazil sees deadliest month

More than 386,450 new cases were reported across India on Friday, as the army opened up its hospitals. Meanwhile, Brazil became the second country to officially top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Europe Decoded

Police in India charge man who appealed for oxygen amid COVID crisis

Police in the state of Uttar Pradesh said the user had been spreading false rumours and generating "fear" online.

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India

India sets another global record for daily new cases logging 375,000

India has set a global record for daily new cases for seven of the past eight days.

World News

Indian COVID variant detected in at least seven European nations: ECDC

According to data obtained by Euronews from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the B.1.617 variant has been detected in seven European countries.

India

India surpasses grim milestone of 200,000 COVID deaths amid surge

Shahid Jameel, a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, told Euronews the COVID crisis raging in the country was ultimately due to a "coming together of multiple factors" including that of vaccine hesitancy.

Belgium

Belgium shuts borders to travellers from India, Brazil & South Africa

Belgium citizens and residents can fly back from these three countries but will have to submit to quarantine and COVID-19 tests.

Europe Decoded

Twitter obliges as India asks for the removal of critical COVID posts

The removed tweets were published by journalists, opposing politicians, lawmakers as well as other prominent figures.

India

How did India's second COVID wave get this bad?

Experts believe India won't reach the peak of this COVID wave until the second week of May, by which time there could be more than half a million cases a day.

India

India sets another global daily record of 346,000 COVID-19 cases

India reported 346,786 new coronavirus cases in a day. The country has reported more than 16 million infections since the beginning of the pandemic.

World News

Merkel wants more EU self-reliance over Covid-19 vaccine production

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to see more EU self-reliance in the pharmaceutical sector after Covid-19 vaccine supply worries

India

India hospital fire kills 13 as nation struggles with oxygen shortage

A hospital fire killed 13 in India amid a surge in COVID-19 infections and oxygen supply shortage in the country.

India

India shatters the global record for daily COVID-19 infections

The enormous number of new cases comes as major hospitals warn of oxygen running out - and many more in search of beds.

United Kingdom

UK reports 77 cases of COVID variant first detected in India

Some 77 cases of a variant thought to be behind a recent surge of infections in India have been detected in the UK.

India

'Alarming' surge sees India COVID-19 cases soar past 14 million

In New Delhi, hotels and wedding banquet halls are being converted into COVID-19 centres amid a surge in cases.

Brazil

Countries hit new records of COVID case numbers and deaths

Numbers have been surging in countries even where the pandemic is thought to be kept in check.

India

Modi gets second vaccine dose as India reports record COVID cases

India’s prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.

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Informal waste workers in India crying out for vaccine access

They are among the estimated 20 million people around the world — in rich nations and poor — who are pivotal in keeping cities clean

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India: Scores injured after stand collapses during kabaddi contest

More than 100 people were injured when the temporary gallery came down, with 20 of those taken to hospital, Indian media reported.