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This is the first in a series of stories about the impact of India’s Covid-19 crisis on the Indian and Chinese economies and the global initiative to restructure supply chains. Apple’s efforts to diversify its production from China to India are being hit by the Covid-19 crisis there, with infections and factory shutdowns prompting analysts to question whether the country can become a smartphone manufacturing and export superpower.
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India Covid: Dozens of bodies wash up on banks of Ganges riverThe bodies appeared to be bloated and partially burnt, and officials said they may have ended up in the river as part of the practice of cremating victims of coronavirus along the river Ganges.
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‘Disowned’: family says pleas for help ignored as Australian man dies of Covid-19 in IndiaDaughter of 59-year-old criticises consular officials’ response and says her mother has been abandoned by her own government A man runs to escape heat and flames from multiple funeral pyres of Covid-19 victims at a crematorium in the outskirts of New Delhi. A 59-year-old Australian permanent resident stranded in India has died of Covid-19. Photograph: Amit Sharma/AP An Australian permanent resident has died of Covid-19 while stranded in India, days after the government’s strict ban on arrivals from the country began. The family of the 59-year-old claim their father was “disowned” by the Australian government before he died. Now, they are pleading for help so their mother, who is also stuck in India, can return to Australia so they can grieve together. The foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, has acknowledged the man’s death, and Australia’s high commissioner to India, Barry O’Farrell, said consular assistance was being provided to the family. However, Payne, O’Farrell and the department of foreign affairs, when asked by the Guardian, have not addressed the family’s claims that Australia’s high commission ignored requests to help repatriate or provide a ventilator to the man in the weeks before his death. Sydney woman Sonali Ralhan’s father reportedly died in a New Delhi hospital on Wednesday, two days after an Australian government determination came into effect that made it a criminal offence for anyone to travel to Australia within 14 days of being in India. The ban applies to citizens and permanent residents, who face fines of up to $66,600 or five years jail, or both, if they attempt to flee the worsening crisis in India. In an open letter to the prime minister posted on Facebook, Ralhan, an Australian citizen, said she contacted consular officials in India a few weeks ago with “great hopes” they would help her parents, long-term residents of Australia, return home safely. Instead, within weeks she would be mourning the death of her father. “I write to you wi
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Australia’s India travel ban: how other countries are managing their returning citizensMore than 9,000 Australians are stranded in India due to the Coalition’s harsh measures. Here’s how the US, Canada, UK and New Zealand are treating travellers arriving from IndiaAustralians stranded in India speak of heartbreakMorrison says India flights won’t resume before 15 May Travellers have their temperature checked at an airport in India. Many countries, including Australia and Canada, have placed travel bans or restrictions on people arriving from India, including their own citizens. Photograph: Abhisek Saha/Le Pictorium Agency/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock More than 9,000 Australians in India who are registered as wanting to return home are in limbo, with a flight ban in place until 15 May. In addition to the ban, Australia has for the first time said those flying home could face up to five years in jail and fines if they breach the ban. The Australian Human Rights Commission, UN human rights committee and health experts including the Australian Medical Association have criticised the harsh measures, saying Australians should have the right to return home. A Guardian Australia analysis revealed at the time Australia introduced the ban, India had fewer coronavirus cases per capita than either the US or the UK during their respective Covid peaks, yet bans and threats of jail and fines were never introduced for those countries. Amid the backlash, the deputy prime minister said on Wednesday: “No one’s going to be jailed, let’s be honest,” but that the government wanted to ensure Australians “follow the rules”. He urged Australians in India to be patient and to wait for the travel ban review on 15 May. But the ban is now being challenged in the federal court. Other countries, even those still battling Covid, are still allowing citizens to return from India. The chair of epidemiology at Deakin University, Prof Catherine Bennett, said Australia should be able to manage arrivals from India according to risk, port of origin and vaccination status. “We could triage even our
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WHO classifies B1617 from India as COVID-19 variant of global concernThe World Health Organziation said on Monday (May 10) that the B1617 variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant ... 全球爆發了
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Covid-19: 4 of 10 community cases test preliminarily positive with B1617 variant from IndiaSINGAPORE — Singapore on Sunday (May 9) recorded 10 locally transmitted cases of Covid-19, of which four tested preliminarily positive with the B1617 variant that originated in India. Oh my god! Indian variant is very dangerous! I hope no more travellers from India! govsingapore
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