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GENEVA (REUTERS) - India accounted for 46 per cent of the new Covid-19 cases recorded worldwide last week and one in four of deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday (May 5). The surge of the coronavirus in India, including of a highly infectious new variant first identified there, has seen hospitals run out of beds and oxygen, and morgues and crematoriums overflowing. Many people have died in ambulances and carparks while waiting for a bed or oxygen. Worldwide, 5.7 million new cases were reported last week and more than 93,000 deaths, WHO said in its weekly epidemiological...
