France sending ICU gear, oxygen generators to India
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India's wealthy flee country's outbreak on private jets
Wealthy people are paying tens of thousands of dollars to fly out of India.
Covid: Australia bans flights to and from India until May 15
Pressure had been growing on the PM to tighten Australia's borders.
Amid second virus wave, the world responds to India's distress call
New York Times: But it likely won't be enough to stop the unfolding catastrophe.
Bubble breach: Perth lockdown traveller made it to NZ; 8 new cases in MIQ
Traveller from Perth self-isolating after trip during lockdown there via Sydney.
Covid: India's cities are under siege - now its rural areas are in the firing line
City lockdowns send thousands of migrant workers - some infected - back to their villages.
Australia poised to copy NZ's India travel ban
Scott Morrison is under pressure to lock down Australia's borders with India.
Deputy PM on Covid crisis: 'Our heart goes out to the people in India'
New Zealand is poised to help India, where Covid-19 is starting to cripple the country.
India's fashion artisans face 'extreme distress' in pandemic
New York Times: Working conditions have long been an issue. Now many have no job at all.
Worrying side-effect of India crisis
Critics sound alarm bells for the public as India's brutal second wave of Covid-19 hits.
SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India's health system
India has set another record for daily Covid infections for a fifth day in a row.
India's Covid nightmare: Families forced to keep their dead at home
"It looked nothing less than a war zone," says a local of New Delhi's biggest cemetery.
Indian variant now most imported form of Covid
It is feared the Indian variant contains mutations which could bypass immunity.
Indian hospitals turn away Covid patients as oxygen shortage worsens
Coronavirus patients are dying outside hospitals in Delhi as they wait for oxygen.
Perth declared 'red zone', all NZ-WA travel stopped
Travel bubble trouble between NZ and Western Australia after community cases.
Derek Cheng: How the Govt opened the transtasman bubble without raising risk
A travel bubble freed up 1300 MIQ rooms - how the Govt closed the door on Covid risk.
Fire kills 13 Covid-19 patients in hospital in western India
An extreme surge in coronavirus infections leaves India short of medical care and oxygen.
NZ permanent residents from four high risk countries blocked from direct travel to NZ
The changes will see about 140 fewer passengers a week arriving from India
'There's no oxygen left': India's war for supplies as nation breaks global Covid record
Oxygen cylinders being sold on the black market, police ordered to escort every delivery.
Deadlock over allowing Indian flight school students into Whanganui
MPs consulted over government exemption needed to let in Indian students
India reports global record of 314k new coronavirus cases
Grim surge sends more and more sick people into India's fragile health care system.
Bodies burning 'day and night': Grim clue of hidden Covid-19 death toll
Crematorium workers say bodies are being burned all night but something doesn't add up.
'No place for you': India's hospitals buckle amid virus surge
Tests are delayed. Medical oxygen is scarce. Hospitals are understaffed and overflowing.
India overwhelmed by massive Covid surge; 'double mutant' strain suspected
No beds, oxygen for critically ill patients as nation's Covid wave worsens.
India's capital to lock down as Covid cases top 15 million
'I do not say the system has collapsed, but it has reached its limits,' minister says.
Virus surge: Fears Covid variants are escaping vaccines in UK
A number of new infections in London involve people who had already been vaccinated.
One new Covid-19 case in MIQ, none in the community
Officials will provide more testing info, as well as an overall Covid update
India accused of hiding alarming Covid-19 reality amid soaring cases
The accusations come after India recorded the world's highest single-day Covid case tally.
With 200,000 in one day, India skyrockets past 14 million virus cases
An intensifying outbreak puts a grim weight on its fragile health care system.
Covid-19: New daily cases skyrocket in India
India has recorded almost 1 million new Covid-19 cases in the past week.
Opinion: Indian travel ban leaves Kiwis stateless
OPINION: To leave Indian-Kiwis stateless isn't unconscious bias, then what is?
Covid-19: No new community cases, three in MIQ; new location of interest
An Auckland bakery is now a new location of interest, linked to an infected MIQ worker.
Two-week India travel suspension starts today
Travellers who have been in India in the past two weeks will not be able to enter NZ.
Covid-19 vaccine rollout marks beginning of 'new era'
World's Covid vaccine rollout marks the beginning but there are some travel restriction.