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From: MEDDLY
4/11/20
The following deals with Mexico's situation with COVID-19 but nothing regarding air pollution:
Coronavirus in Mexico: Street vendors agonize over health or livelihood | DW | 02.04.2020
A large number of Mexicans eke out a living as street vendors in Mexico City. The coronavirus outbreak has made their job even more precarious. Do they risk their lives to save their livelihood?
Read more from DW.COMFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
May-8
Chemical gas leak at plant in India kills 11, hospitalises hundreds - ABC News
At least 11 people have been killed and hundreds more are in hospital after a chemical gas leak at an LG Polymers plant in southern India.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
May-17
Analysis
India's coronavirus lockdown: The good, the bad and the ugly of Narendra Modi's COVID-19 measures - ABC News
India has now surged past 80,000 confirmed cases, passing China's tally. So how did it get here? And why, after six weeks of one of the world's strictest lockdowns, is the country still in such an uncertain position?
Read more from www.abc.net.au- Edited May 17, 2020 3:00 am by Jenifer (Zarknorph)
From: bml00
May-17
Not all of India is in lock down , not all states not all cities .
Many Industries have been designated as essential with their staff now living in the factories not daring to tgo out become infected and close their factory .
With hundreds of thousands of unregistered migrant workes from other states on the move it is not diffiuclt to see how the virus spreads so easily .
Ports are open , banks are open etc.,
With such an enormous country it is more than possible that the situsation is far worse than they know or are reporting
BM
From: adwil
May-17
bml00 said:With such an enormous country it is more than possible that the situsation is far worse than they know or are reporting
Sadly, that's true of a lot of countries in Africa, Asia and South and Middle America.
From: BerrySteph
May-17
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:India's coronavirus lockdown: The good, the bad and the ugly of Narendra Modi's COVID-19 measures - ABC News India has now surged past 80,000 confirmed cases, passing China's tally. So how did it get here? And why, after six weeks of one of the world's strictest lockdowns, is the country still in such an uncertain position?
Modi is a fascist, at least as aggressive as Hitler to religious minorities and over-running Kashmir.
But you'll never mention that - only lash out at nations such as Iran which have never done any of that.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
May-19
India enforced the world's biggest lockdown. But critics say it's taken a heavy toll - ABC News
A nation of over a 1.3 billion people was given just four hours to prepare for one of the world's strictest lockdowns. The economic and health side-effects have been severe.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
May-20
Strongest cyclone in over a decade slams into India, Bangladesh
A powerful cyclone slams into the coasts of India and Bangladesh, as millions of people flee to shelters in a frantic evacuation made all the more challenging by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
May-20
Cyclone Amphan kills 14 in India and Bangladesh, leaving trail of destruction
A powerful cyclone kills at least 14 people as it sweeps through eastern India and Bangladesh, while an accompanying storm surge swamps embankments and destroys hundreds of homes.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: MEDDLY
May-20
Amphan means "sky" in Thai, which is quite ironic since you barely can see the sky during a Hurricane/Cyclone/Typhoon:
Amphan - How Cyclone Was Named
Cyclone Amphan, which is expected to hit Bengal on Wednesday, will weaken into an extremely severe cyclonic storm in the next six hours, the Met department has said.
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