India

India, the world's biggest maker of vaccines overall, stopped vaccine exports in April to focus on inoculating its own population as infections exploded.

Health officials say though they are studying the evolving science on booster doses, the priority is to fully immunise India's 944 million adults.

India has the most partly immunised people in the world, according to Our World in Data.

Authorities have formed teams to check households for water logging, and fumigate areas at risk, and have also released thousands of Gambusia, or mosquitofish, into water bodies to eat the mosquito larvae.

Police say there may have been a communication error behind the collision.

Festive crowds have still packed markets in Maharashtra and other states in recent days, ignoring the warnings.

They say schools are 'an essential service'.

Beds have been added at facilities around the country, and hospitals are working to ensure ample supplies of oxygen.

Densely populated Kerala, on India's southern tip, accounted for nearly 70% of the 47,092 new infections and a third of deaths, a week after it celebrated its biggest festival.

His family says Syed Ali Shah Geelani had been ailing for years and had been under house arrest for the last 12 years after leading several anti-India protests.

Last year, New Delhi's 20 million residents breathed some of the cleanest air on record in the summer because of coronavirus lockdown curbs, but battled toxic air in winter following a sharp increase in farm residue burning in nearby states.

Up to two metres of water has submerged many villages.