India death toll passes 250,000, variant spreading

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Another 4,205 deaths were confirmed over the last 24 hours, a national record, taking total fatalities to 254,197

While vaccinations have helped to ease the pandemic crisis in the United States and Europe, India is in the grip of a devastating wave.

Across India overwhelmed hospitals have been unable to treat people and there have too many bodies for crematoriums to deal with, and many Covid-19 deaths are not properly recorded as such.Bodies have also been seen floating down the holy Ganges river, stoking concerns that the virus is now raging in India's vast rural hinterland where two-thirds of people live and where health care is patchy.

Salesforce's chief technology officer said on Twitter that the company was experiencing a "major disruption", later updating to say services had been mostly restored. The campaign was initially slow because of tight supplies of imported doses of the Pfizer vaccine but has since been plagued by a shortage of manpower and other logistical snags.Brazil will begin vaccinating Olympic athletes and other members of its Tokyo-bound delegation against Covid-19 from today, officials said.

 

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Population of 1.4 billion people! Deaths per captia is no different to and is on par with other european countries at present. Pfizer, Moderna, J & J vaccines 'Protect against' the Indian variant, FACT!

Cases are peaking in India......

'It's just a flu.'

This is India...you need to multiply the number by 5 at least..

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