Kamis, 22 April 2021
Hospitals in India run out of oxygen as its Covid cases hit world record levels - BBC News - BBC News
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Thousands across Russia defy ban on Alexei Navalny protests - BBC News - BBC News
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2021-04-22 14:09:58Z
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Coronavirus news – live: Vaccine passports ‘ready by summer’ as India sees record 314,000 cases in single day - The Independent
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Covid: India sees world's highest daily cases amid oxygen shortage - BBC News
India has recorded the highest one-day tally of new Covid-19 cases anywhere in the world - and the country's highest number of deaths over 24 hours.
It has close to 16 million confirmed cases, second only to the US.
The country is in the grip of a second wave, raising more fears about its overwhelmed health care system.
Crowds have formed outside hospitals in major cities which are filled to capacity. A number of people have died while waiting for oxygen.
Meanwhile, some countries are bringing in stricter rules affecting travel to and from India amid fears over the rising cases.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the number of flights between the two countries would be cut, while the UK has added India to a red list, restricting travel and bringing in hotel quarantine for all arrivals from India from Friday morning.
What's happening in India's hospitals?
India is struggling to cope with the soaring numbers - it recorded some 314,835 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,104.
Oxygen supply has been a particular problem, with a number of hospitals in the capital Delhi running out entirely on Thursday, according to the city's Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia.
Delhi's highest court on Wednesday publicly criticised the central government for its handling of the oxygen crisis in the city.
"This is ridiculous. We want to know what the centre is doing with regard to oxygen supply across India," the judges said while reading out the verdict in a petition by the owner of six private hospitals.
It ordered the government to ensure safe passage of oxygen supplies from factories to hospitals across India. Delhi state government approached the high court again on Thursday when two of the city's hospitals reported they had only a few hours' oxygen supply left.
The court ordered the federal government, which allocates oxygen quota to states, to ensure smooth supply of to Delhi. The federal government said it was ensuring free movement of oxygen tankers between states.
A feeling of helplessness
By Vikas Pandey, BBC News, Delhi
My phone is constantly ringing with desperate friends and family asking for help to arrange beds and medicine. Some I am able to help, and some I can't.
I personally know of many cases where patients died because they couldn't get oxygen in time. It's heart-breaking for families to hear that the hospital where their loved ones are being treated may soon run out of oxygen.
Emergency intervention from the government has stopped any big disaster from happening so far, but there is an urgent need to give hospitals enough oxygen so they can sustain the increasing caseload.
But experts are asking why the government allowed the situation to become so dire. The pandemic was under control in January but the lean period was not used to augment healthcare facilities.
And now people are paying a heavy price for it, and we are left with a sense of helplessness all around.
How is India trying to contain cases?
Unlike last year, no national lockdown has been announced. Instead, regions are implementing their own rules.
Delhi announced a week-long lockdown at the weekend, leaving just government offices and essential services like hospitals, pharmacies and grocers open.
The authorities in the worst affected state of Maharashtra - which was already under a partial lockdown - have announced a series of additional restrictions starting from Thursday evening.
Maharashtra is India's richest state and home to its financial hub, Mumbai. It has also been a Covid hotspot since the start of the pandemic, accounting for a quarter of India's cases.
Maharashtra has also reported more deaths from the virus than any other state, with 67,468. India has suffered nearly 185,000 deaths with Covid, according to Johns Hopkins University. However, while deaths have been rising, the fatality rate remains relatively low.
Uttar Pradesh, which is also reporting a high caseload, has adopted a more conservative approach, with its high court on Monday ordering a lockdown in five badly affected districts. However, it was put on hold after the government appealed against the decision in Supreme Court.
How is India's vaccination drive going?
India - which has a population of more than a billion people - has so far administered more than 130 million doses but the drive has been restricted to health workers, frontline staff, those above the age of 45 and anyone with comorbidities.
From 1 May, people above 18 will also be eligible for the vaccine. But a supply crunch, which is already affecting the drive, could slow it down further.
On Thursday, Pfizer announced it was in ongoing discussions with the Indian government to supply its Covid-19 vaccine to the country at a not-for-profit price.
What caused the latest wave?
India has seen a rapid rise in case numbers over the past month driven by lax safety protocols, a Hindu festival attended by millions and variants of the virus, including a "double mutant" strain. It was detected in 61% of samples tested in Maharashtra, according to the National Institute of Virology.
Huge election rallies - including by Prime Minister Narendra Modi - were also not halted in the state of West Bengal which has been holding elections in phases in recent weeks.
Voters will be casting ballots on Thursday as well, for the sixth stage of voting. The government has defended the decision to continue with the polling.
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Rabu, 21 April 2021
Putin warns of tough Russian action if West crosses 'red line' - BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West not to cross a "red line" with Russia, saying such a move would trigger an "asymmetrical, rapid and harsh" response.
The warning came in his annual state of the nation address, amid heightened tension with the West over Ukraine and jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny.
Mr Putin said Western powers were constantly trying to "pick on" Russia.
Police have detained nearly 100 Navalny supporters rallying in several cities.
Hundreds staged pro-Navalny protests on Wednesday in eastern cities including Vladivostok, Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. The authorities have declared them illegal.
The anti-corruption campaigner is being treated at a prison hospital in Vladimir, about 180km (112 miles) east of Moscow. He is on hunger strike and his allies say his life is in danger.
In central Moscow police cordoned off the area around Manezh exhibition hall, where Mr Putin addressed both houses of parliament. Navalny supporters plan to rally in the area at 19:00 (16:00 GMT).
Two close aides to Navalny - lawyer Lyubov Sobol and spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh - were among those detained.
Belarus 'coup plot'
Mr Putin focused most of his speech on Russia's battle against Covid-19 and its plans to improve welfare and economic development.
But he accused the West of threatening stability in Russia and its ex-Soviet neighbours Belarus and Ukraine.
"The use of unjust sanctions is growing into something more dangerous: a coup attempt in Belarus," he said.
He backs Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who faces huge opposition since claiming re-election last year, in a vote widely condemned as rigged. The two presidents will hold talks in Moscow on Thursday.
On 17 April the Belarusian authorities announced that they had foiled a US-backed plot to assassinate President Lukashenko. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained two Belarusians allegedly involved in the plot.
The coup claim was dismissed by the exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as a "provocation".
Since last August's disputed election, massive demonstrations in support of her have taken place, with thousands of protesters beaten up by police and detained.
Warning to West
President Putin said some Western countries were like jackals trying to please the US, just as a jackal behaves with the tiger Shere Khan in Kipling's tale The Jungle Book.
"We don't want to burn bridges, but if somebody interprets our good intentions as weakness, our reaction will be asymmetrical, rapid and harsh," he said. "We'll decide for ourselves in each case where the red line is."
Tensions have been building over Ukraine, as reports say Russia has moved more than 100,000 troops close to disputed areas.
A large part of that force is in Crimea, the peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine in March 2014. A senior Ukrainian officer, Gen Serhiy Nayev, estimated the total force to be 103,200 last week.
Russia backs the separatists holding a swathe of eastern Ukraine, and its manoeuvres have fuelled fears of a new Russian military intervention.
In his speech Mr Putin said that "the West didn't think about Belarus or Ukraine, when the Maidan events were going on there". Mass protests in Kyiv's Maidan Square led to Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing to Russia in February 2014.
"The organisers of any provocations against Russia will regret [their actions] in a way they never have before," Mr Putin warned.
Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov later described the "red lines" as "our external security interests, our internal security interests in preventing any outside interference, whether in our elections or other domestic political processes".
Last week the US government accused the Kremlin of "malign activity" and expelled 10 Russian diplomats. Russia responded tit-for-tat. Similar hostile exchanges of diplomats took place between Russia and both the Czech Republic and Poland.
Russia's fight with Covid
The first half of Mr Putin's speech focused on Russia's battle with Covid-19 - he praised the social solidarity of millions of people.
Mr Putin, who coughed several times during his speech, said "vaccination is vital... there is no other way", and he urged all Russians to get vaccinated.
"In the autumn, we want to have achieved collective immunity," he said. "We must maintain tight control to stop the virus spreading."
He said Russia was in a demographic emergency, and Covid was making matters worse. The trend must be reversed, to achieve a median life expectancy of 78 years in Russia by 2030, he said.
During the pandemic Mr Putin has largely remained at a residence just outside Moscow, so this is a rare appearance in public.
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George Floyd murder: President Biden announces investigation of Minneapolis policing - BBC News - BBC News
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2021-04-21 21:16:17Z
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George Floyd murder: Joe Biden says Derek Chauvin guilty verdict can be 'moment of significant change' - Sky News
US President Joe Biden has welcomed the conviction of Derek Chauvin and said it can be a "moment of significant change" after the white former police officer was found guilty of murdering 46-year-old black man George Floyd.
A jury unanimously convicted 45-year-old Chauvin of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after 10-and-a-half hours of deliberations over two days.
Mr Biden said Mr Floyd's death was "a murder in full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world" to see systemic racism.
But he added: "It's not enough. We can't stop here. We're going to deliver real change and reform.
"We can and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedies like this will ever happen again."
Sky's Greg Milam said Chauvin - whose face was obscured by a COVID face mask - showed little emotion as the guilty verdicts were read out and faces 12 and a half years in prison as a first-time offender, but prosecutors could seek a maximum of 40 years if the judge determines there are aggravating factors.
He put his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds while arresting him last year for allegedly trying to use a fake $20 note to pay for a pack of cigarettes.
Crowds erupted into cheers and applause outside the court building in Minneapolis following the conviction.
Mr Biden and vice president Kamala Harris spoke with Mr Floyd's family moments after Chauvin was remanded in custody, handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.
The president said: "Nothing is going to make it all better, but at least now God there is some justice."
But he also admitted that "such a verdict is also much too rare".
Mr Floyd's brother Philonise told reporters after the verdicts: "We are able to breathe again."
But he added the fight for justice was not over: "We have to protest because it seems like this is a never-ending cycle."
Mr Floyd's nephew Brandon Williams told crowds: "We need police reform bad.
"We need each and every officer to be held accountable and until then it's still scary to be a black man and woman in America."
The jury's decision was hailed around the country - and the world - as justice by politicians, civic leaders and celebrities.
Former president Barack Obama tweeted: "Today, a jury did the right thing. But true justice requires much more.
"Michelle and I send our prayers to the Floyd family, and we stand with all those who are committed to guaranteeing every American the full measure of justice that George and so many others have been denied."
Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman posted: "A reminder that victory would be George Floyd being alive. Every day Black Americans worry if they will be next is another day without justice."
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a white man, wrote on Twitter that Mr Floyd "would still be alive if he looked like me. That must change".
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "appalled" by Mr Floyd's death and welcomed the verdict.
Video footage of Mr Floyd's death on 25 May 2020, in which he cried he could not breathe, sparked a wave of anti-racism protests across the world, including the UK, with many marching through towns and cities under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Among those gathered outside the court on Tuesday was Mr Floyd's girlfriend Courteney Ross.
She told Sky News: "I miss Floyd so much you know, it's hard to think about how I feel. But I do know that I'm really hopeful for change right now.
"I feel like this has just opened up a door for so many people to have their cases reopened, to have people get justice for their lost loved one."
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2021-04-21 07:08:03Z
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