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India: a Covid-19 catastrophe

The Briefing
May 03, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 94
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The whole world is watching India right now. Its daily case numbers of COVID-19 hit 400,000 this week. The death toll is also rising rapidly with India's health ministry reporting more than 3,600 deaths in the past 24 hours.

 

We speak with James Oaten; the ABC’s Indian correspondent from Dehli to the get the latest from India; and we speak with Dr Pradeep Teneja from the Australia India Institute about what Indians in Australia make of what’s happening on the sub-continent.

 

India is facing a Covid catastrophe.  Will it get worse before it gets better?

 

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