Virus Outbreak: • India’s tally of COVID-19 fatalities surpasses 6,000. • Neighboring Pakistan reports over 4,000 new cases. • Global Vaccine Alliance seeks to mobilize billions of dollars of funding at UK summit.
Raja Kadam rests on his bed inside a toilet complex in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, May 16, 2020. Kadam, who has lived in this toilet complex for nine years, says toilets here are disinfected once daily. Dharavi has had more than 1,800 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and is among Mumbai’s most affected pockets. Without reliable running water in it's 500 toilet complexes, one of the most worrying concern for authorities is sanitation.
The “people’s vaccine” should protect the affluent, the poor, the old and young, said a statement by the U.N. and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. That is a “moral imperative that brings us all together in our shared humanity,” it said.It said the pandemic is also raising risks of other diseases as it disrupts childhood immunization programs, leaving at least 80 million children under the age of one at risk of diseases like measles, diphtheria and polio.
Neighboring Pakistan reported over 4,000 new cases and said 82 more people had died, raising its death toll to 1,770. On Thursday, as many as 901 COVID-19 patients were listed in critical condition in Pakistan hospitals. North Macedonia reintroduced stringent restrictions on movement in its capital, Skopje, and three other areas after confirming 101 new infections as of Thursday.
South Carolina has logged its three highest daily case counts in the past week. The two highest death counts have occurred in the last week –- 20 deaths on May 27 and 17 deaths on Wednesday. Both in the U.S. and around the world, it is the poorest and most vulnerable who have been the hardest hit, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message.
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