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A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 is consoled by another during cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Delhi has been cremating so many bodies of coronavirus victims that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks, as a second record surge has brought India's tattered healthcare system to its knees. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

AP PHOTOS: Mass funeral pyres reflect India’s COVID crisis

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In this March 11, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden holds up a card with his daily schedule and the daily deaths from COVID-19 as he speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden pledges to aid India amid COVID-19 surge, share 60 million vaccine doses worldwide

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A station passageway is crowded with commuters wearing face masks during a rush hour at Shinagawa Station Monday, April 26, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan declared a third state of emergency for Tokyo and three western prefectures from Sunday amid skepticism it will be enough to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence just three months ahead of the Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Latest: Ontario getting military help for pandemic surge

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Villagers in Pakistani Kashmir hail cease-fire with India

By SALOHI - Associated Press

Family members of a person who died due to COVID-19 perform the last rites at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen inside a car provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Indias medical oxygen shortage has become so dire that this gurdwara began offering free breathing sessions with shared tanks to COVID-19 patients waiting for a hospital bed. They arrive in their cars, on foot or in three-wheeled taxis, desperate for a mask and tube attached to the precious oxygen tanks outside the gurdwara in a neighborhood outside New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

U.S. sending aid to India amid COVID-19 crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

An usher briefs visitors at an entrance of a department store which is open partially, in Tokyo Sunday, April 25, 2021. Japan’s department stores, bars and theaters shuttered Sunday, as the government “state of emergency” over the coronavirus pandemic kicked in amid growing worries about a surge in infections. (Hiroko Harima/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: Biden says US set on helping India with pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Multiple funeral pyres of victims of COVID-19 burn at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Indian authorities are scrambling to get medical oxygen to hospitals where COVID-19 patients are suffocating from low supplies. The effort Saturday comes as the country with the world’s worst coronavirus surge set a new global daily record of infections for the third straight day. The 346,786 infections over the past day brought India’s total past 16 million. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Virus ‘swallowing’ people in India; crematoriums overwhelmed

By Sheikh Saaliq and Aijaz Hussain - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2018, file photo, the 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, arrives at the British territory of Gibraltar. New aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the most powerful surface vessel in the Royal Navy's history, will set sail in May 2021 for Asia with eight fast jets on board. It will be accompanied by six Royal Navy ships, a submarine armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, 14 naval helicopters and a company of Royal Marines. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno, File)

New UK aircraft carrier to set sail for Asia next month

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Multiple funeral pyres of victims of COVID-19 burn in a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. India’s underfunded health system is tattering as the world’s worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation, which set a global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730. (AP Photo)

India virus patients suffocate amid oxygen shortage in surge

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Nurses Nadia Boudra, left, and Yvana Faro, right, care for a patient inside an operating room now used for unconscious COVID-19 patients at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Thursday, April 22, 2021. France still had nearly 6,000 critically ill patients in ICUs this week as the government embarked on the perilous process of gingerly easing the country out of its latest lockdown, too prematurely for those on pandemic frontlines in hospitals. President Emmanuel Macron's decision to reopen elementary schools on Monday and allow people to move about more freely again in May, even though ICU numbers have remained stubbornly higher than at any point since the pandemic's catastrophic first wave, marks another shift in multiple European capitals away from prioritizing hospitals. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

The Latest: Washington state resumes J&J inoculations

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A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen inside a car provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. India’s medical oxygen shortage has become so dire that this gurdwara began offering free breathing sessions with shared tanks to COVID-19 patients waiting for a hospital bed. They arrive in their cars, on foot or in three-wheeled taxis, desperate for a mask and tube attached to the precious oxygen tanks outside the gurdwara in a neighborhood outside New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

AP PHOTOS: Oxygen demand outstrips supply in India hotspots

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Patients undergo treatment for COVID-19 inside a tent installed outside the Social Security Hospital in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The government decreed new lockdown rules on April 21 for the majority of Ecuador's provinces, limiting movement on weeknights and a strict, all-day curfew on weekends to curb the spread of the new coronavirus which is overwhelming hospitals. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

The Latest: Health panel urges restarting J&J vaccinations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Workers unload empty oxygen cylinders returning from hospitals at a gas supplier facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. India has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases daily, bringing pain, fear and agony to many lives as lockdowns have been placed in Delhi and other cities. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Health workers carry a body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation, in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. New infections are rising faster in India than any other place in the world, stunning authorities and capsizing its fragile health system. Overall, India has more than 15.6 million cases, the second-highest after the United States, with 182,553 deaths. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

EXPLAINER: Why India is shattering global infection records

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and KRUTIKA PATHI - Associated Press

Ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients line up waiting for their turn to be attended at a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. 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. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Indian hospitals plead for oxygen, country sets coronavirus record

By Neha Mehrotra and Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

An Afghan army soldier stands guard as smoke rises from a burning fuel tanker after a road accident on the Jalalabad-Kabul highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

China, neighbors weigh options and hedge bets as Biden prepares Afghan exit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman cries after her husband died of a leakage in the oxygen plant of a hospital in Nashik, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A local administrator in western India says 22 patients have died in a hospital when their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leakage in a supply tank. The official says the oxygen supply has since been resumed to other patients. (AP Photo)

Oxygen supply disruption kills 22 COVID-19 patients in India

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FILE- In this April 14, 2021 file photo, people wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus stand in queues to board trains as they try to leave Mumbai, the capital of the worst affected Maharashtra state in India. India's health system is collapsing under the worst surge in coronavirus infections that it has seen so far. Medical oxygen is scarce. Intensive care units are full. Nearly all ventilators are in use, and the dead are piling up at crematoriums and graveyards. Such tragedies are familiar from surges in other parts of the world — but were largely unknown in India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

‘No place for you’: Indian hospitals buckle amid virus surge

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and NEHA MEHROTRA - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 19, 2021 file photo, people wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus line up without any physical distancing to get tested for COVID-19 at a government hospital in Jammu, India. India's health system is collapsing under the worst surge in coronavirus infections that it has seen so far. Medical oxygen is scarce. Intensive care units are full. Nearly all ventilators are in use, and the dead are piling up at crematoriums and graveyards. Such tragedies are familiar from surges in other parts of the world — but were largely unknown in India. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Asia Today: Indian opposition leader positive for COVID-19

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