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News Articles: India

On June 25, people queued up to register for a COVID-19 vaccine at a site outside a Hindu temple in Hyderabad. Vaccinations are now being administered after a series of missteps led to a shortage of doses. If all goes well, India's public health agency hopes to be vaccinating up to 10 million people a day by late July.

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  • Global Health

India Is The World's Biggest Vaccine Maker. Yet Only 4% Of Indians Are Vaccinated

The Serum Institute began mass-producing COVID vaccines even before approval. They've made millions of doses. But so far only about 4% of people in India are fully vaccinated. What went wrong?

June 29, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Asha Gond, 21, with her skateboard. She tried the sport when a skatepark was set up in her rural village and is now one of India's top female skateboarders.

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  • Sports

Skateboarding Gives Freedom To Rural Indian Teen In Netflix Film — And In Real Life

A new Netflix movie called Skater Girl chronicles the journey of an Indian teenage girl who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding. It's also the story of Asha Gond.

June 11, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a standoff with social media companies over what content gets investigated or blocked online, and who gets to decide.

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  • Asia

India And Tech Companies Clash Over Censorship, Privacy And 'Digital Colonialism'

India's new social media rules give the government broad powers to block some content and break encryption. It's the latest in a standoff with tech companies over censorship, privacy and free speech.

June 10, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Shannon Bond
From left: Home cooked food at Srabasti Ghosh's home, ready for delivery. A volunteer delivers food to COVID-19 patients outside their home. Ghosh (right) with a friend who has joined to help.

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  • Global Health

How Two Dancers, A Mom And A Life Coach Help Out In India's COVID Crisis

Amid India's COVID surge, regular folks are channeling their time, talents and resources to support their neighbors — and strangers, too. Public health experts say it's making a real impact.

June 03, 2021
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By:
  • Sreyashi Dey
As India suffers through a devastating coronavirus surge, children are asking difficult questions.

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  • Global Health

Kids In India Are Asking Heartbreaking COVID-19 Questions. Here's How To Answer Them

As the country faces the world's worst coronavirus crisis, children want to know: Will I catch it? Will grandfather die? What's it like to be an orphan?

May 28, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
Medical attendant Gurmesh Kumawat prepares to administer supplemental oxygen to a coronavirus patient in the emergency ward at the BDM Government Hospital in mid-May in Kotputli, India.

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  • World

COVID-19 Has Pushed India's Junior Doctors To Their Limits

They're treating as many as 200 patients a day. Many have seen more suffering than they expected in an entire career. A psychiatrist warns this will be "a generation of doctors who are traumatized."

May 26, 2021
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  • Lauren Frayer
Rains have washed away the top layer of sand of shallow graves at a cremation ground on the banks of the Ganges River in Shringverpur, northwest of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Coronavirus testing is limited in parts of rural India, but some of the people buried there are believed to have died of COVID-19.

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  • World

In Rural India, Less COVID-19 Testing, More Fear — And A Few Ventilators For Millions

Hospitals are full. Testing is scant. Illiteracy is high. Most deaths are never registered. COVID-19's wrath in rural India is difficult to measure but public health experts are worried.

May 22, 2021
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  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Sushmita Pathak
Dr. Noor Dhaliwal, 23, recently finished medical school and last month began interning at Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi.

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  • Asia

New Doctors In India Are Starting Off Seeing The Worst. It's Taking A Toll

In India, a generation of new doctors enters the field at a time of crisis. One new doctor in New Delhi is haunted by a woman who begged for a hospital bed — but they were all full.

May 21, 2021
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma
Richa Srivastava (rear left) with her husband, Shalabh Pradhan (rear right), and their two fathers, Sudheer Kumar Pradhan (front left) and Sheo Prakash Srivastava (front right), in an undated family photo. The two family patriarchs died within three days of one another in April.

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  • World

They Returned To India To Be Near Their Fathers, But Lost Them Both To COVID-19

After seven years in the U.S., a husband and wife returned to their native India to spend more time with their aging parents. But their time together was shorter than they'd hoped.

May 19, 2021
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  • Lauren Frayer
Priyali Sur, 29 weeks pregnant, at home in Delhi on April 30.

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  • Global Health

She Was Pregnant. She Was Sick. And In India, She Had Nowhere To Go

A pregnant journalist investigates and finds many pregnant, COVID-positive women can't access life-saving healthcare during the country's deadly second wave.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Priyali Sur
A police officer helps a public transport driver cross a flooded street caused by heavy rain from Cyclone Tauktae in Mumbai.

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  • Asia

Cyclone Hits India On Deadliest Day Of Pandemic

At least 16 people have been killed by Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful storm to hit India's west coast in decades. Among those evacuated to higher ground were COVID-19 patients.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Cyclists cycle past the main entrance of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, a venue where cricket matches were taking place during the 2021 Indian Premier League — until it was suspended.

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  • Global Health

India's Major Cricket Tournament Got Suspended. Should It Have Even Happened?

The Indian Premier League was suspended in May, but critics weigh in on whether the event should have been held at all amid the country's deadly COVID-19 crisis.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
A light micrograph of a mature sporangium of a mucor fungus. India is seeing a rise in cases of mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection.

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  • Global Health

What Is 'Black Fungus'? And Why Is It Spreading Among India's COVID Patients?

Doctors say India's battle with COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented rise in mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection that preys on people with weakened immune systems.

May 13, 2021
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
In New Delhi on Monday, family members cremate the body of a person who died after contracting COVID-19.

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  • World

'This Government Has Failed Us': Anger Rises In India Over PM Modi's COVID Response

India's health system is collapsing as daily coronavirus cases surge. Will the COVID-19 crisis check the power of the country's most popular leader in decades?

May 11, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
The numerals in the illustration show the main mutation sites of the B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the U.K., which is more transmissible than other variants. Here, the virus's spike protein (red) is bound to a human cell (blue).

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  • Science

Is The Variant From India The Most Contagious Coronavirus Mutant On The Planet?

Scientists are trying to determine if the coronavirus variant in India could be the most transmissible variant known.

May 07, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
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