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  • India tops 200,000 dead as virus surge breaks health system

    April 27, 2021 - 11:45 PM

    NEW DELHI - India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms health care systems on the brink of collapse.

  • Death toll surpasses 6 million for pandemic now in 3rd year

    March 07, 2022 - 11:46 AM

    BANGKOK (AP) — The official global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 6 million on Monday — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.

  • Virus 'swallowing' people in India; crematoriums overwhelmed

    April 25, 2021 - 6:47 PM

    NEW DELHI - With life-saving oxygen in short supply, families are left on their own to ferry people sick with COVID-19 from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as India is engulfed in a devastating surge of infections. Too often, their efforts end in mourning.

  • Low on beds, oxygen, India adds global high 314K virus cases

    April 22, 2021 - 3:23 AM

    NEW DELHI - India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world's second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen.

  • India's capital to lock down amid explosive virus surge

    April 19, 2021 - 2:21 PM

    New Delhi imposed a weeklong lockdown Monday night to prevent the collapse of the Indian capital's health system, which authorities said had been pushed to its limit amid an explosive surge in coronavirus cases.

  • Germany to extend virus shutdown until mid-February

    January 19, 2021 - 2:25 PM

    BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that Germany is extending its pandemic restrictions, including the closure of schools and stores, until mid-February amid concerns that new mutations of the coronavirus could trigger a fresh surge in cases.

  • India virus cases pass 9M; capital's hospitals under strain

    November 20, 2020 - 5:48 AM

    NEW DELHI - Intensive care wards in New Delhi's hospitals are nearly at capacity, and the city's main crematorium is packed, as the coronavirus has surged in the Indian capital and the country hit a grim milestone Friday, recording 9 million infections.

  • Fall in new cases raises hope in virus outbreak in China

    February 12, 2020 - 12:07 PM

    BEIJING - The number of new cases of the coronavirus in China dropped for a second straight day, health officials said Wednesday in a possible glimmer of hope amid the outbreak that has infected over 45,000 people worldwide and killed more than 1,100.

  • Ashes to ashes: Home funeral workshops teach loved ones to care for corpses

    February 21, 2016 - 11:30 AM

    TORONTO - It's only because Deborah Magdee happened to overhear a radio show two years ago that she left her mother's dead body at home for five days.

  • B.C. brother, sister allege funeral home picked up mom's body without consent

    February 24, 2015 - 5:51 PM

    VANCOUVER - A brother and sister are taking a B.C. hospital and funeral home to court, alleging the body of their 95-year-old mother was picked up by a funeral services company without their consent and later had to be tracked down by another firm.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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