Growing floods toll hampers coronavirus efforts in South Asia News


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Coronavirus News The death toll from monsoon floods across South Asia has increased to more than 350 in recent weeks, with villages still submerged and tens of thousands displaced as authorities battle with rising coronavirus cases. The torrential downpours across the densely populated region are critical to replenishing rivers and groundwater, but also cause widespread death and destruction. In Bangladesh, which is crisscrossed by rivers, 129 people have died from the floods and flood-related illnesses, officials said on Friday. About one-third of the delta nation remains underwater. The floods have dragged on for a month in what authorities said was...