Canada suspends flights to Pakistan and India amid COVID-19 threat
Canada suspends flights to Pakistan and India for a month. This is due to the risk of importing new strains of coronavirus into the country. Earlier in one of them, Indian scientists discovered two mutations at once, reports “MIR 24”.
In recent days in India, a new outbreak of covid infection. On Wednesday, the country had a record 314 thousand cases of infection. A new wave of coronavirus is destroying the country's health care. Oxygen is running out in hospitals in the capital. Over the past day, more than 300 people have died there. The crematoria are overcrowded. The authorities have set up temporary sites for burning the bodies of the dead right in the city.
“There used to be parking here. The authorities allowed us to set up a cremation ground. At first we made 24 campfires, but now there are twice as many. So many bodies are brought in that we quickly run out of wood. If the situation does not improve, people will have to be cremated on the road, ”said Jitender Singh Shanti, head of the non-profit center for medical services.
New strains of the virus are also appearing in Cuba, where another anti-record for daily COVID-19 infection has been set. In the last 24 hours alone, more than 1200 people fell ill in the country. There are practically no places left in hospitals. The last phase of clinical trials of two national vaccines is underway in Cuba. They will begin to vaccinate people on a massive scale as early as May.
