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- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- It is revealed that India's holiest river, the Ganges, 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. This infection can be triggered 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 10 people outdoors are banned amid a rising number of locally transmitted cases. (France 24)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia