India has seen the number of Covid-19 cases drop below 300,000 a day for the first time in three weeks - but as the country grapples with a second wave, it must also contend with a killer cyclone. Cyclone Tauktae bore down on India on Monday, disrupting the nation's urgent response to its devastating Covid-19 outbreak. Hinduja National Hospital and a member of the state's Covid-19 taskforce. The government issued detailed guidelines on Sunday for monitoring COVID-19 cases with the health ministry asking villages to look out for people with flu-like illness and get them tested for COVID-19. He said the impoverished state's government was 'pained at both the tragedy as well as harm to the river Ganges'.

Source: Daily Mail May 17, 2021 09:10 UTC