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In this April 19, 2021, file photo, people wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus wait to test for COVID-19 at a hospital in Hyderabad, India. Misinformation about the coronavirus is surging in India as the death toll from COVID-19 rises. Fueled by anguish, distrust and political polarization, the claims are further compounding India's crisis. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A, File)

Misinformation surges amid India’s COVID-19 calamity

By David Klepper and Neha Mehrotra - Associated Press

South Dakota residents from India carry worldwide worry

By ALFONZO GALVAN - Associated Press

Family members pay last respect to their relative Rajendra Prasad Mishra, a 62-year-old man who has lost his life from coronavirus infection before cremation at River Ganges at Phaphamau in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

As cases grow, India’s vaccination campaign falters

By KRUTIKA PATHI - Associated Press

Long-haul carrier Emirates to ship aid for free into India

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Porto, Portugal, Saturday, May 8, 2021. On Saturday, EU leaders held an online summit with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, covering trade, climate change and help with India's COVID-19 surge. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira)

EU, India try again to clinch trade deal, sidelining China

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Shoppers crowd at a marketplace in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 7, 2021. India's surge in coronavirus cases is having a dangerous effect on neighboring Bangladesh. Health experts warn of imminent vaccine shortages just as the country should be stepping up its vaccination drive, and as more contagious virus variants are beginning to be detected. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

As India surges, Bangladesh lacks jabs, faces virus variants

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

COVID-19 patients receive oxygen outside a government run hospital in Jammu, India, Friday, May 7, 2021. With coronavirus cases surging to record levels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing growing pressure to impose a harsh nationwide lockdown amid a debate whether restrictions imposed by individual states are enough. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India’s surge hits southern states, prompts more lockdowns

By KRUTIKA PATHI - Associated Press

Body of a COVID-19 victim is wheeled in for cremation in a ground that has been converted into a crematorium in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Infections in India hit another grim daily record on Thursday as demand for medical oxygen jumped seven-fold and the government denied reports that it was slow in distributing life-saving supplies from abroad. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan)

Pressure rises for India lockdown; surge breaks record again

By NEHA MEHROTRA and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

A health worker takes a man's pulse after giving him a shot of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Universidad Publica de El Alto, during a vaccination drive for people over 60, in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

The Latest: Connecticut data show COVID-19 vaccine effective

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, Vice President Kamala Harris' maternal uncle, Balachandran Gopalan, talks to media outside his house, in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Personal ties: Harris’ family in India where COVID rages

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2021, file photo, medical workers tend to coronavirus patients in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya. Amid concerns over India, Kenya, which is coming down from a recent peak in cases, halted flights with the country for two weeks, while Nigeria suspended flights with India, Brazil and Turkey, fearing new virus strains could come in as it tries to bring down cases, particularly in Lagos, home to some 20 million people. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

India’s disaster hangs over countries facing COVID-19 surges

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A man carries his daughter at the Kalideres bus terminal in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The mass exodus out of major cities in the world's most populous Muslim country is underway despite travel restrictions imposed by the government to prevent the spread of coronavirus outbreak, as people are heading home to their villages to celebrate Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on May 13. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

The Latest: LA, San Fran opening business despite infections

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, Vice President Kamala Harris' maternal uncle, Balachandran Gopalan, talks to media outside his house, in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Personal ties: Harris’ family in India where COVID rages

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file photo, relief supplies from the United States in the wake of India's COVID-19 situation arrive at the Indira Gandhi International Airport cargo terminal in New Delhi, India. India’s large diaspora is tapping its wealth, growing political clout and expertise to help India combat a catastrophic coronavirus surge that has led to desperate pleas for oxygen and left people to die outside overwhelmed hospitals. (Prakash Singh/Pool via AP, File)

On the ground and afar, diaspora boosts India’s virus fight

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

Family members of COVID-19 victims leave as their funeral pyres burn at an open crematorium set up at a granite quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India hits another grim record as it scrambles oxygen supply

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

President Joe Biden gesturing as he takes questions from reporters as he speaks about the American Rescue Plan, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines

By JAMEY KEATEN and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Donors race to aid India during COVID-19 surge

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2021, file photo, a man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan, File)

Top court orders India’s government to present oxygen plan

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai, sitting wearing cap, listens as separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, standing, addresses a demonstration against the government in Srinagar, India, April 16, 2008. Sehrai, a prominent politician in Kashmir who challenged India’s rule over the disputed region for decades died Wednesday while in police custody. He was 78. (AP Photo /Mukhtar Khan)

Staunch anti-India Kashmir politician dies in police custody

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2021, file photo, exhausted workers who carried the dead for cremation sit on the rear step of an ambulance in New Delhi, India. As deaths mount and a vaccine rollout falters badly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed much of the responsibility for fighting the outbreak onto unprepared and poorly equipped state governments. The crisis has badly dented Modi’s carefully cultivated image as an able technocrat. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Australian cricketers in limbo after India’s IPL postponed

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