Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: COVID crisis

Hit by COVID crisis, AMU students want exams cancelled

The students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) raised a demand via an open letter and a Twitter storm on Tuesday to the varsity administration...

COVID killed 6 to 8 million people, significant undercount in official figure: WHO

Official reports of the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 are likely a "significant undercount," according to the World Health Organization, which estimated Friday...

India’s COVID crisis; Each burning pyre is an unspeakable, screeching horror

Vyoma Dhar Sharma, University of Oxford Global health researcher Vyoma Dhar Sharma had just embarked on a fieldwork trip to India as COVID-19 began sweeping...

‘Monumental moment’ Biden supports vaccine waiver

Brett Wilkins, commondreams.org As the United States on Wednesday broke with other wealthy nations to support waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines, global health leaders applauded President...