India’s pandemic death toll could be in the millions
Excess deaths in India during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to new research.
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Indonesia in oxygen tank appeal as new infections surge past India
Indonesia has entered the “worst case scenario” as the Delta strain wreaks havoc, recording more new COVID-19 cases than any country in the world.
India reopens but locals say, ‘Don’t sacrifice your life to visit the Taj Mahal’
While the Taj Mahal has partially reopened, life for locals remains in limbo: no longer totally shut down but far from fully normal or safe.
Death rates surge as virus-hit Indonesia confronts oxygen supply crisis
The fears that Indonesia was heading down the same path as India are beginning to come to pass in devastating fashion.
We are in need of vaccines: Indonesians eye Australia’s unwanted AstraZeneca
Scientists warn that Indonesia’s outbreak is starting to resemble India’s as morgues fill up and the government scrambles for doses for its 270 million people.
Big tech is gearing up for a massive fight with Modi’s India
The stakes in India are particularly high for internet firms because – shut out of China – it’s the only billion-people market up for grabs.
UN General Assembly condemns Myanmar coup, calls for arms embargo
In a rare move, the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly for an arms embargo against Myanmar’s junta, although China and India abstained.
‘We always hope it will be yes this time’: toddler has 15 travel exemptions rejected
Two-year-old Gurman Chechi has been in India for nearly 18 months without his parents but can’t get a travel exemption to be reunited with them in Hobart.
A radiant Queen Elizabeth II attends G7 summit event, Cornwall, England
Members of the Royal family and G7 leaders at The Eden Project during the G7 Summit in St Austell, Cornwall, England. UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, hosts leaders from the […]
India to give free vaccines to citizens over 18 in COVID fight
Prime Minister Narendra Modi promises to ramp up vaccine procurement to try to vaccinate 75 per cent of Indians sooner than in two years.
‘Australia was my dream’: family of toddler in India pleads for help
The Kangs are considering moving to Canada in the hopes of reuniting with their little boy after 15 months apart.
209 Australian children still stuck in India without parents
DFAT secretary Frances Adamson says diplomats have a “steely determination” to bring the children home.
Vietnam says new outbreak caused by hybrid of UK, India virus variants
In the last few weeks, Vietnam has confirmed more than 3,500 new cases and 12 deaths, increasing the country’s total death toll to 47.
She taught me how to wear a sari. A few weeks ago, she died of COVID
I feel affection for the country of my father’s birth, but I don’t normally feel a closeness. Right now, as India heaves, I am craving recognition for where I come […]
Flight from India lands in Victoria hours before lockdown begins
The first repatriation flight from India to Melbourne has touched down early, several hours before the Victorian government’s seven-day snap lockdown begins.
What we know about the virus variant from India that’s spreading in Victoria
It remains unclear how effectively antibodies from the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines will neutralise the coronavirus variant known as B.1.617.1. But in a hopeful sign, both are effective against a […]
India faces twin disasters as cyclone lashes coast during COVID surge
Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of India’s eastern coast as a cyclone pushed ashore in a region already struck by a devastating coronavirus surge.
South Asian students need our support
The COVID crisis in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is distressing Australia’s south Asian community, particularly the large number of international students who do not have close family and friends in […]
Border Force travel rejection rates raise racial bias questions
Travel exemptions for people in India wanting to come to Australia were rejected three times more often than those arriving from Britain and the US last year.
‘Totally helpless’: Third Australian man dies in India from COVID-19
Sunil Khanna, 51, formerly from Sydney’s west, had been living in New Delhi before his death where he cared for his elderly parents who are not Australian citizens.
Entire families wiped out by COVID as virus races through rural India
India’s total virus cases swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Cricket Australia chief confirms India is paying for quarantine amid claims of special treatment
Cricket Australia’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley has confirmed the Indian board is paying for Australian players’ quarantine period in Sydney.
Sydney man who died in India from COVID-19 was trying to get home
The family of Govind Kant, who flew to India last month for his mother’s funeral, say he was desperately trying to get back to Australia in the weeks before his […]
India’s Gujarat state evacuates more than 200,000 people as Cyclone Tauktae hits
The most powerful cyclone in more than two decades, which has already killed at least 16 people and left a trail of destruction, has now made landfall in the state […]
Glimmer of hope in India as COVID cases drop in big cities
In the last week, the number of new cases plunged by nearly 70 per cent in India’s financial capital Mumbai, home to 22 million people.
PM lends support to QANTAS to stop infected passengers from India
It comes after an Australian man who returned from India received his positive nasal swab test result for COVID-19 after landing in Darwin, despite trying to get his results.
Modi missing in action during nation’s deadly crisis
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been silent as India endures one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the world.
‘In limbo’: The Australians left behind in India as flight leaves without them
Sunny Joura has been trying to return to Melbourne since June last year. On Friday, hours before his flight was due to leave, he tested positive to coronavirus, leaving he […]
COVID-positive Australians blocked from mercy flight will get priority next time
At this stage there are no plans to organise a separate flight for COVID-positive people stranded in India.
Victoria puts faith in hotels as ‘loophole’ route from India reopens
The state’s hotel quarantine system will likely host returnees from COVID-ravaged India soon as the option of flying via a third country reopens.