Aligarh: Forty-four employees of the Aligarh Muslim University – 19 professors and 25 non-teaching staff – have died after contracting the Covid virus, sparking concern over yet more cases, and deaths, emerging from the prestigious educational institution. AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor wrote to the ICMR (Indian Council for MedicalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Church in northern India has mourned the death of a Vincentian priest who opened new mission areas in Agra archdiocese and Meerut diocese in Uttar Pradesh state. Father Thomas Emprayil died of Covid-19 at 9:55 am on May 8 in St Joseph’s HospitalContinue Reading
A catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s already creaky health infrastructure, with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen, while critical drugs are being sold on a thriving black market. Social media platforms have been flooded with SOS messages from people pleading for oxygen cylinders and hospital admissionsContinue Reading
Mumbai: Till the end of last month, 27-year-old Ashish Avhad had to field non-stop telephone calls from COVID patients seeking beds, ambulances and guidance on home isolation. Avhad works as a telephone operator in one of the 24 COVID response “war rooms” in India’s financial capital Mumbai, home to moreContinue Reading
Bhopal: A man was forced to carry his daughter’s body on a cot for post-mortem for 35 km, walking for almost seven hours to reach the hospital in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh. A video surfaced online which showed the man, along with a few villagers, mounting his 16-year-old daughter’sContinue Reading
Baghpat: Seven people have been arrested in Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh for stealing clothes of the dead from crematoria and burial grounds, said police on Sunday. The arrests come at a time when social media and the national dailies have been cataloguing an ever growing number of dead bodiesContinue Reading
After dipping into his savings to weather India’s snap pandemic lockdown last March, Manoj Kumar was just getting his head above water again earning 600 rupees ($8) a day as a construction worker in the tourist hotspot of Goa. He’d squirreled away enough for a trip last month to hisContinue Reading
Jaipur: Twenty-one people died in as many days at a village in Rajasthan’s Sikar district allegedly after a Covid-19-infected corpse was buried without following protocol. However, officials said that only four deaths have occurred due to the virus between April 15 and May 5. According to officials, a Covid-19-infected bodyContinue Reading
Ludhiana: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh made a video call to 10-year-old street vendor and asked him to rejoin school. The chief minister’s gesture came after a video showing Vansh Singh selling socks on roads in Ludhiana to support his family went viral. He promised assistance for the boy’s family.Continue Reading
New Delhi: A bishop in India has said that failure to put in place proper Covid-19 restrictions caused the current crisis – which has seen new cases exceeding 300,000 daily. Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that lax Covid-19 safety earlier this yearContinue Reading