From: slider@anashram.com

Global vaccine rollout reaches one billion mark as India continues to
battle overwhelming surge of cases

The US has promised to “rapidly deploy” aid to beleaguered healthcare workers in India where there has been a fourth straight day of
world-record Covid case numbers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/25/global-covid-jabs-pass-billion-mark-as-indian-government-censors-critical-tweets

The US said it was in high-level talks to deploy extra help to Indian healthcare workers and that it was gravely concerned about the situation
there.

“Our hearts go out to the Indian people in the midst of the horrific
COVID-19 outbreak. We are working closely with our partners in the Indian government, and we will rapidly deploy additional support to the people of India and India’s health care heroes,” US secretary of state Antony
Blinken said on twitter.

On Sunday the India prime minister, Narendra Modi, said the country had
been shaken by its overwhelming second wave, which saw the nation record a fourth consecutive day of world record cases.

Modi said the country would have to give priority to scientific evidence
to battle the virus, but said the country will “together come out of this crisis soon”, Reuters reported.

India’s Covid death toll at record high, but true figure likely to be worse

Indian authorities announced 349,691 new cases on Sunday, another record
for a single country since the start of the pandemic. India also reported
2,767 deaths, also a daily record, as a surge of cases has pushed the government to organise special trains to get oxygen supplies to worst-hit cities.

One “oxygen express” carrying 30,000 litres of oxygen arrived in northern Lucknow at dawn on Saturday, where armed guards were waiting to escort
trucks to hospitals.

In a hopeful development, however, the world has passed the milestone of
one billion Covid-19 jabs administered.

As of Saturday at least 1,002,938,540 vaccine doses had been administered
in 207 countries and territories, according to an AFP tally. Nevertheless,
the global number of new infections hit a record 893,000 on Friday, with
India accounting for more than a third of those.

The Indian government had earlier asked Twitter to take down dozens of
tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of its
handling of the outbreak.

Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the legal request by the
Indian government, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Saturday.

The government made an emergency order to censor the tweets, Twitter
disclosed on Lumen database, a Harvard University project. In the government’s legal request, dated 23 April, 21 tweets were mentioned.

The law cited in the government’s request was the Information Technology
Act 2000.

“When we receive a valid legal request, we review it under both the
Twitter rules and local law,” a Twitter spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.

“If the content violates Twitter’s rules, the content will be removed from the service. If it is determined to be illegal in a particular
jurisdiction, but not in violation of the Twitter rules, we may withhold
access to the content in India only.”

Thailand, which had long avoided the worst of the virus, was also
grappling with a spiralling caseload.

The prime minister, Prayut Chan-O-Cha, said on Saturday that more than
1,400 Covid-19 patients were waiting to be admitted to hospital. On Sunday
the country reported 2,438 new coronavirus cases and 11 new deaths, the
highest one-day death toll Thailand has yet experienced.

The pandemic has killed more than three million people worldwide since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019.

Brazil has seen its deadliest month yet of the virus with nearly 68,000 reported fatalities in April so far, with a week still to go.

Worldwide, the number of vaccine doses administered has doubled in less
than a month. The majority of poor countries have also started to
vaccinate – mainly thanks to the Covax programme – but inoculation is
still largely a privilege of wealth. High-income countries, home to 16% of
the world’s population, have administered 47% of vaccine doses.

By contrast, low-income countries account for just 0.2% of shots so far.

In the US, regulators have approved the restart of a rollout of Johnson & Johnson vaccines halted over blood clotting concerns.

In Europe, Belgium said on Saturday it would authorise the J&J shot for
all adults, having already received 36,000 doses and expecting a total of
1.4m between April and June.

The European Union as a whole said it would have enough vaccines to
immunise 70% of its adult population by the end of July.

Germany is implementing tougher new lockdown rules, including night
curfews and school closures, after the government passed a disputed new
law designed to slow infections.

The rules – passed this week amid huge protests in Berlin – will apply in all regions with incidence rates of more than 100 new infections per
100,000 people over the last seven days.

In Britain, ongoing restrictions are continuing to fuel anger. Police in
London said they arrested five people, and eight officers were injured,
after disorder at large-scale protests against England’s remaining coronavirus restrictions, the mandatory use of masks and possible
introduction of so-called vaccine passports.

### - if anyone 'still' has any doubts whatsoever about the severity +
risk of getting covid-19, then all one has to do is look to india today to
see the effects of covid rampaging through an unprotected population?

the chances being that the number of reported casualties there are at
least double, if not treble, the official figures due to most people being
just too poor or too ill to get themselves to hospital and as such are
dying like flies at home in their beds...

the increase in multiple variants basically putting everyone else in the
world at exactly the same risk regardless of the current vaccines people
in the first world have privileged access to, the only thing (so far) that appears to 'actually' stem the tide being full lockdowns! something morons
all over the globe are protesting and actively resisting because they don't/can't accept the reality/danger of the situation??

thus if you 'have' access to a vaccine you should probably take it and
then keep the fuck away from everyone else until there's been a period of
weeks (if not months) of no sign of it in your community!

even so, all it'll take is for one nasty variant to emerge that
circumvents these vaccines and the whole damn thing will start over again!?

and as such could, conceivably, continue for... decades!

that if only we'd locked down for say 5 or 6 months worldwide when this
first all started we might have gotten rid of it altogether, only we just couldn't do it could we! yes economies would have been crippled but at
least we'd have survived it??

as it is we (our civilisation) might NOT now survive it at all, and the
ones we have to THANK for this are the various deniers who, in one form or another, have thus 'allowed' this shit to engulf the whole planet!

so are we stupid or wot??

well apparently we ARE that stupid!

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix."

--opening lines of Ginsberg's poem: 'Howl'

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