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Crematoriums in the Indian capital of New Delhi are being forced to make makeshift funeral pyres in a measure of the desperate plight facing the country.
Grieving relatives of the dead are having to wait 20 or more hours for a funeral pyre amid an explosion of new Covid cases.
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America’s leading expert on infectious diseases, Dr Anthony Fauci, has told Guardian Australia’s Melissa Davey that richer countries must give more help to India as it faces a desperate fight against coronavirus.
He tells Mel that the virus can’t be defeated without a more equitable response.
The only way that you’re going to adequately respond to a global pandemic is by having a global response, and a global response means equity throughout the world. And that’s something that, unfortunately, has not been accomplished. Often when you have diseases in which there is a limited amount of intervention, be it therapeutic or prevention, this is something that all the countries that are relatively rich countries or countries that have a higher income have to pay more attention to.
