Lethal black fungus emerges in Covid patients across India
Hospitals report multiple daily cases of rare infection with a mortality rate of 50%.
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Australian judge upholds ban on travellers from India
Temporary ban on returnees from Covid-ravaged country due to be lifted on Friday.
'Situation worse than India': Nation 'staring into Covid abyss'
The Covid-19 crisis is engulfing a mountainous nation of 30 million people.
India vaccine crisis: Death toll rises at record pace
Death toll rises as vaccine crisis hits India; more than 4000 deaths reported today.
At India's funeral pyres, Covid-19 sunders the rites of grief
New York Times: India's cremation grounds bear a painful routine of trauma.
Covid-19: Pressure builds for nationwide lockdown in India
Medical experts, opposition leaders and even judges are calling for national restrictions.
Australian dies in India, but cause of death unclear
Authorities are investigating reports an Australian has died in India.
Kiwis stranded in India: 'It's our duty to bring them back'
Indian Cricket Board helps NZ cricketers fly home; NGO calls for our Govt to help others.
India Covid-19 appeal: Herald readers raise $200,000 for World Vision
Herald readers give generously to help our neighbours in India.
Kiwis in India feeling stranded and hopeless
NZers see little hope of escaping the Covid-ravaged country as cricketers fly out.
Covid-19 appeal: Indian Kiwi mum - 'Every day people in my whānau are dying'
Stories from the front line in India - and the opportunity for you to help.
NZ cricketers set to escape India in 'next 24 hours'
New Zealand cricketers in Covid-19 ravaged India are preparing to get out of the country.
India Covid-19 appeal: Doctor's plea for supplies - 'It makes me feel incredibly helpless to watch patients die'
Dr Anjima Das says Covid patients can only get a bed when someone dies or is discharged.
India Covid appeal: '75 patients waiting for every hospital bed'
Most people dying from Covid in India cannot even get into a hospital.
Covid-19: 'We don't go out into the community now. If we do, we double mask'
Tony and Jan Bellew are doing all they can to get out of India and back home to NZ.
India Covid appeal: 'Crematoriums burning day and night. It's just so unimaginably bad'
Esther Ghosh fought to save her brother's life.
'This is not going to end soon': Expert's grim prediction for India
'If everything goes very well, things will be horrible for the next several weeks.'
Seven NZ High Commission staff in India contract Covid
At least one seriously ill staffer has been treated at the compound.
Australia tells its citizens in India: Don't come home
New York Times: Australia has made it a criminal offence for citizens to enter country.
Patients 'begging to leave': Inside India's grim Covid ward
As India struggles with Covid, one hospital is so bad its patients are begging to leave.
India Covid-19 appeal: 'It's worse than a horror movie'
A World Vision worker describes how she feared she might lose her husband.
India Covid-19 appeal: 'We are in a race against time to prevent even more people dying'
Franklin Jones, who runs World Vision's response, says the crisis is devastating.
Indian Premier League in disarray after two players test positive for Covid
The team is coached by Brendon McCullum and includes current and former Black Caps.
NZ High Commission's India oxygen plea: 'People are really upset'
The Twitter appeal has reportedly offended locals and 'could have been easily avoided'.
NZ citizen's great escape from Covid-ravaged India
Pushpinder Singh said his ticket home from Delhi cost about $6000.
'Dying in their cars': Horror of world's worst Covid outbreak
Countries around the world pledge to help India as it records its highest death toll.
'Every time I'm calling, someone has died': The anguish of India's diaspora
New York Times: A global community mourns Covid-stricken loved ones in India.
'Very unwell' staffer at NZ High Commission in India sparked oxygen plea
High Commission has apologised for the incorrect process is used to get an oxygen tank.
Covid: Australia defends hard-line stance on India travel ban
Threats of fines, jail time "raise serious concerns", the Human Rights Commission says.
Global Covid cases reach new peak, driven by India and South America
New York Times: The average daily rate of new cases has topped 800k for more than a week.
India mourn deaths of Covid patients in hospital fire
The fire broke out in a Covid ward on the ground floor and was extinguished within an hour
US to close borders to India citing devastating Covid numbers
'Extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants' cited for ban.
India's Covid-19 human crisis spirals with record 386,000 new cases
India's Health Ministry today also reported 3498 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Alarm grows in Africa as it watches India's Covid crisis
African officials worry about delays in vaccine deliveries caused by India's crisis.