Left, Right & Centre

"In this pandemic, all of the statistics have failed, and the second wave is affecting the younger age group, but the Centre government is fully prepared," says Dr Rakesh Varma, Additional Director General, Health Services (DGHS), Government of India.

The cricket caravan moved to Delhi in the middle of the pandemic, even as the cases crossed 24,000. BCCI says play for humanity. IPL matches are to be held near a cremation ground. IPL may have started messaging through commentary teams but some of the biggest stars prefer to remain in their own bubble of privilege. On LRC, we ask: is IPL really the capital's priority at this moment?

White House reporter Tyler Page gives details of the massive US Covid assistance package for India.

Germany is sending ventilators, masks and mobile oxygen generation plants to India, as the nation faces shortages of the live saving gas and essential medical supplies amid the coronavirus surge.

"This is sheer incompetence and miserable failure of governance. Government started the celebrations too early, they thought they conquered covid. World scientific community was warning us of the second wave but government was very keen to show that they had conquered Covid. This is how Donald Trump acted, he refused to accept the reality", says Naresh Gujral , Spokesperson and MP, SAD.

The United States has announced that it will transfer vaccines and raw material for anti-Covid jabs to India. Nisha Biswal, President, USIBC, speaks exclusively to NDTV.

The coronavirus situation in Delhi remains grim. It is getting better in Mumbai, but the daily numbers in Bengaluru and Kolkata are now a matter of huge concern. In the last 24 hours, there have been 16,000 positive cases in India's IT capital and in Kolkata, there are 3,868 amid reports that the positivity rate may be shooting up. On this show, we speak to the ordinary citizens in Kolkata and Bengaluru on the possibility of testing, getting a hospital bed and medical oxygen.

This is the fifth straight day that over 3 lakh cases have been recorded by the country. With 3,52,991 fresh Covid cases and 2,812 deaths, India saw a new record high as the deadly second wave swept the country. Nearly 10 lakh cases have been reported in the last 72 hours. The centre has put out guidelines for states on enforcing lockdowns and containment zones to try and flatten the curve. The rules say restrictions should be imposed when the positivity rate is 10 per cent or more for a week and when more than 60 per cent hospital beds are occupied.

NDTV speaks to US epidemiologist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding about India's COVID-19 crisis and what trends can we expect. Dr Feigl-Ding warns that the condition is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Covid positivity rate rises in several cities and health infrastructure is overburdened. As healthcare workers fight to save patients scrambling for beds and oxygen, NDTV speaks to doctors across big cities in India to get a ground reality check.