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Israel on Sunday stepped up air strikes on Gaza as it bombed the homes of high-ranking Hamas officials. According to reports, the Palestinian death toll on Sunday morning climbed to 174, including 47 children.
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Goa has been in the throes of an unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic with the second and the more lethal wave of the contagion registering record deaths in the state so far. Why has Covid-19 struck India's King of good times with such vengeance? We find out as we speak to Goans from different walks of life
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The World Health Organization approved a Covid-19 vaccine from China's state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm for emergency use on Friday, a boost to Beijing's push for a big role in inoculating the world.
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Infections in India are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, a solemn reminder the pandemic is far from ending. India's official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million on Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially have passed 220,000.
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As India continues to battle Covid crossing more than 19 million cases, a severe shortage of oxygen in hospitals has taken a heavy toll. On Sunday, 24 patients died at a government hospital in Chamarajanagar, Karnataka due to an alleged oxygen shortage where patients were undergoing treatment. The Batra Hospital in Delhi ran out of oxygen supply for over an hour on Saturday which resulted in the death of 12 Covid-19 patients, including a doctor. While in Punjab, six patients died at a private hospital in Amritsar last week.
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A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, blackening the country’s largest Covid-era gathering. The night-time disaster struck as tens of thousands of pilgrims were gathered in Meron at the site of the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
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India’s terrifying phase of Covid's second wave has claimed more than 200,000 lives as of April 28. Official data showed there were 352,991 new reported cases over a 24-hour period as total infection numbers crossed 17 million. Patients have died outside hospitals, gasping for oxygen, while waiting to be admitted even as thousands continue to struggle to find a hospital bed across the country.
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