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Revision as of 10:09, 19 May 2021
May 19, 2021 (2021-05-19) (Wednesday)Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- It is revealed that the Ganges river in India has had hundreds of human bodies floating in its waters and buried in its banks in recent days, including some thought to have died of COVID-19. (BBC)
- An anti-fungal drug, Amphotericin B, used in the treatment of a rare infection called mucormycosis, or "black fungus", is in short supply across states in India. Immunity to this infection can be reduced by the use of steroids in severely ill COVID-19 patients. (BBC)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
- Vice President Leni Robredo receives her first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. (CNN Philippines)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
- Taiwan raises its COVID-19 alert level to level 3 nationwide, which is same level as Taipei and New Taipei City where masks are required to wear at all times and gatherings of more than five indoors and ten people outdoors are banned amid a rising number of locally transmitted cases. (France 24)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
Law and crime
- The Audiencia Nacional (Spanish High Court) summons the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, to present himself in court on June 1 on accusations of multiple charges related to human rights violations by human rights groups and Western Sahara individuals. Ghali, who is currently hospitalized in northern Spain, refused to sign the summon, saying he has to refer to the Algerian embassy first. (Reuters)