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MelbuFrahma4 05/15/21 7:14:37 PM #1:	https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/15/opinions/india-covid-crisis-international-response-das/index.html India has surpassed 20 million reported cases only second in the world to the US and set world records of more than 400,000 new cases a day. Across the country, more than a dozen states are recording positivity rates of around 20%, and more than 250,000 people have died. While some point out that India still trails the US when it comes to the caseload and death toll, the numbers don't tell the full story. Experts say that Covid-19 cases are being underreported in India, and that the actual death toll could be five times higher. Over the past few months, the government downplayed the risk and severity of Covid-19 by allowing large-scale gatherings like religious pilgrimages to the Ganges and political rallies to take place. Now, India is consumed with pleas for oxygen and the cries of those who have lost loved ones to the virus. Funeral homes are beyond capacity, and the smog that is so common in cities there is made even worse from the smoke of funeral pyres. In Kolkata, my aunt is lying in a hospital bed, fighting for her every breath. The virus has overwhelmed the Indian health care system and hospitals are running short of doctors, beds and oxygen. Despite the international community's best efforts to support India during this time, the country and the world will continue to face extraordinary odds against this virus if vaccination efforts aren't equitable. As of April, 87% of the administered vaccines went to high income countries while only 0.2% went to low income countries, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. To end this pandemic, we need to vaccinate everyone. India has a long way to go on this front, given that less than 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated so far. In February, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "At this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community." None of us is safe from Covid-19 unless all of us are safe. Where we are born shouldn't determine whether we survive this terrible disease. We need vaccine equity. --- "We'll never see Day-Lewis and Kubrick, or Kurosawa and Eastwood, but we have seen Bale and Nolan, a cinematic dream pairing come to life!" <cite>MelbuFrahma4 posted [p:953945067] in India's Co... [t:79461355]...</cite> <quote>https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/15/opinions/india-covid-crisis-international-response-das/index.html India has surpassed 20 million reported cases only second in the world to the US and set world records of more than 400,000 new cases a day. Across the country, more than a dozen states are recording positivity rates of around 20%, and more than 250,000 people have died. While some point out that India still trails the US when it comes to the caseload and death toll, the numbers don't tell the full story. Experts say that Covid-19 cases are being underreported in India, and that the actual death toll could be five times higher. Over the past few months, the government downplayed the risk and severity of Covid-19 by allowing large-scale gatherings like religious pilgrimages to the Ganges and political rallies to take place. Now, India is consumed with pleas for oxygen and the cries of those who have lost loved ones to the virus. Funeral homes are beyond capacity, and the smog that is so common in cities there is made even worse from the smoke of funeral pyres. In Kolkata, my aunt is lying in a hospital bed, fighting for her every breath. The virus has overwhelmed the Indian health care system and hospitals are running short of doctors, beds and oxygen. Despite the international community's best efforts to support India during this time, the country and the world will continue to face extraordinary odds against this virus if vaccination efforts aren't equitable. As of April, 87% of the administered vaccines went to high income countries while only 0.2% went to low income countries, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. To end this pandemic, we need to vaccinate everyone. India has a long way to go on this front, given that less than 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated so far. In February, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "At this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community." None of us is safe from Covid-19 unless all of us are safe. Where we are born shouldn't determine whether we survive this terrible disease. We need vaccine equity. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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India has surpassed 20 million reported cases only second in the world to the US and set world records of more than 400,000 new cases a day. Across the country, more than a dozen states are recording positivity rates of around 20%, and more than 250,000 people have died. While some point out that India still trails the US when it comes to the caseload and death toll, the numbers don't tell the full story. Experts say that Covid-19 cases are being underreported in India, and that the actual death toll could be five times higher. Over the past few months, the government downplayed the risk and severity of Covid-19 by allowing large-scale gatherings like religious pilgrimages to the Ganges and political rallies to take place. Now, India is consumed with pleas for oxygen and the cries of those who have lost loved ones to the virus. Funeral homes are beyond capacity, and the smog that is so common in cities there is made even worse from the smoke of funeral pyres. In Kolkata, my aunt is lying in a hospital bed, fighting for her every breath. The virus has overwhelmed the Indian health care system and hospitals are running short of doctors, beds and oxygen.

Despite the international community's best efforts to support India during this time, the country and the world will continue to face extraordinary odds against this virus if vaccination efforts aren't equitable. As of April, 87% of the administered vaccines went to high income countries while only 0.2% went to low income countries, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. To end this pandemic, we need to vaccinate everyone. India has a long way to go on this front, given that less than 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated so far. In February, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "At this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community." None of us is safe from Covid-19 unless all of us are safe. Where we are born shouldn't determine whether we survive this terrible disease. We need vaccine equity.

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India has surpassed 20 million reported cases  only second in the world to the US  and set world records of more than 400,000 new cases a day. Across the country, more than a dozen states are recording positivity rates of around 20%, and more than 250,000 people have died. While some point out that India still trails the US when it comes to the caseload and death toll, the numbers don't tell the full story. Experts say that Covid-19 cases are being underreported in India, and that the actual death toll could be five times higher. Over the past few months, the government downplayed the risk and severity of Covid-19 by allowing large-scale gatherings like religious pilgrimages to the Ganges and political rallies to take place. Now, India is consumed with pleas for oxygen and the cries of those who have lost loved ones to the virus. Funeral homes are beyond capacity, and the smog that is so common in cities there is made even worse from the smoke of funeral pyres. In Kolkata, my aunt is lying in a hospital bed, fighting for her every breath. The virus has overwhelmed the Indian health care system and hospitals are running short of doctors, beds and oxygen.

Despite the international community's best efforts to support India during this time, the country and the world will continue to face extraordinary odds against this virus if vaccination efforts aren't equitable. As of April, 87% of the administered vaccines went to high income countries while only 0.2% went to low income countries, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. To end this pandemic, we need to vaccinate everyone. India has a long way to go on this front, given that less than 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated so far. In February, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "At this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community." None of us is safe from Covid-19 unless all of us are safe. Where we are born shouldn't determine whether we survive this terrible disease. We need vaccine equity.
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