World health experts issued a grim warning Friday that the second year of COVID-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped."We're on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first," said the World Health Organization's (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.The mood also darkened in Japan where the coronavirus state of emergency took in a

Indian doctors have recorded a huge spurt in cases of mucormycosis, an aggressive, hard-to-treat fungal infection, among COVID-19 patients.For 35-year-old Milind Deshmukh, contracting the COVID-19 infection has been a devastating, life-altering experience.The mechanical engineer from Thane, a suburb of Mumbai, caught a fungal infection known as mucormycosis while battling the viral disease.

In a choked voice, Parasuram Maurya described desperately running from one hospital to another to save his father from COVID-19.Sundar Maurya, a farmer from the south-western town of Narainapur, complained of breathing difficulties and tested positive on 3 May. Within days, his condition worsened.Mr Maurya took his father, who is in his mid-50s, to three medical facilities in the Banke district but all refused him admission due to a shortage of beds and oxygen.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that a variant of COVID-19 behind the acceleration of India's explosive outbreak has been found in dozens of countries all over the world.The United Nations (UN) health agency said the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19, first found in India in October, had been detected in more than 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access database "from 44 countries in all six WHO regions"."And WHO has received reports of detections from five a

As India battles a major coronavirus wave, there's concern about rising infection levels in neighbouring countries.Travel and other restrictions have been introduced amid fears that poorly resourced local health services will be unable to cope.What's Happened To Case Numbers?In India, daily case numbers and deaths began rising in March and then surged dramatically.

For the past few weeks, the world`s attention has been drawn to India as COVID-19 cases soar in an extreme fashion. Daily deaths in the sub-continent have reached all-time high. With hospitals running out of beds, the health system in the country is overwhelmed. Even oxygen has become a scarce luxury that most Indians simply cannot get hold off or afford. Images of bodies of deceased COVID victims waiting to be cremated and distraught loved ones are very sad to behold.

A few years ago, as Narendra Modi came into power, investigative reporters discovered that India was hiding its malaria deaths. While at the Indian national health ministry in New Delhi, they saw thousands of cases disappear.

United States (US) President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced support for a global waiver on patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, offering hope to poor nations that have struggled to access the life-saving doses.India, where the death toll hit a new daily record amid fears the peak is still to come, has been leading the fight within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow more drug makers to manufacture the vaccines – a move pharma giants oppose.US Trade Represe

India is witnessing the worst phase of the pandemic while the World Health Organization (WHO) says a highly infectious Indian variant of the virus has already spread to 17 countries.India has reported 357,229 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours – the 13th straight day of more than 300,000 infections – taking its overall tally to more than 20 million.

International aid to alleviate India's dire oxygen shortage arrived in the South Asian nation on Sunday, as its coronavirus death toll climbed to a grim new record.The country of 1.3 billion reported 3,689 coronavirus deaths on Sunday – another grim daily record, with nearly 400,000 new cases of COVID-19 registered across India.Surges in Brazil and Canada have also highlighted the persistent threat of the pandemic, with the global death toll approaching 3.2 million even as many nations r