India sees 259,551 new COVID cases, ‘black fungus’ adds to woes

The Indian government is asking states to report cases of a rare but deadly infection that is affecting patients who have had the coronavirus.
Many regions are seeing an increase in mucormycosis, also known as Black Fungus.
There is increasing concern as pharmacies run out of medicines to treat it.
Al Jazeera's India correspondent Elizabeth Puranam has more.
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[learseneshow]

Try Cow dung. I heard it's a good treatment for Covid 😂

[brendameistar]

Maybe start investing in working sewerage and drinkable water would be a good start, cease all government sponsored scams would be a plus

[facundo]

indians if you survive this panademic learn good hygiene 👍

[kniferain]

India too busy standing with Israel to fight Corona
Jai Hind! 😭🙏

[ag-bkwf]

No jaw and now an eye...poor guy...and everyone else who suffers.

[detectivethinker]

Saw this on Chinese social media ages ago! The Black Fungus illness have less than 50% survival rate.

[sylverrain]

😞 Liberal Democracy don’t seem to work for India. The wealthy part of India seem to do just fine.

[bahjo]

In India 27, 000 is Normal death daily without 4000 daily death made huge headlines among Medias....the missing part is death rate is different from each state....

[lifeasithappens]

Most Indians have severe vitamin D deficiency and are also diabetic.
Cut all sugars and fried foods and pastries also take 50, 000 IU vitamin D3 and zinc.
Dr. Neil Bagelstein

[azkanaeem]

It is always painful to see people dying be it Palestine or India, be it by virus or military occupation. One must always has the courage to stand with humanity!

[M.VishnuVardhan]

My people are dying... I can only pray for them...

[sun-wsmt]

When the new crown virus appeared in India last year, India chose to launch a Sino-Indian border conflict to divert attention. How does India plan to divert the attention of the Indian people this year?

[chocolateboy]

They destroyed kashmiri people eyes and now see the karma, what God is doing with them ..

[jarrodyuki]

no child policy for those below poverty and one child policy for the rest. thorium.

[BenState]

All of those women looking after their men. Don't forget Indian men.

[sajasukalayan]

Now time to care you self 😔 Malaysia now covid 6k per day 😖

[bilal_gondal]

there is less coronavirus in Kashmir because they have been under house arrest for almost a year.

[pk]

It’s disgusting that there are people who find this something to make fun about in the comment section. Have some decency folks. What’s the point of civilization when we laugh at people dying and suffering.

[NairaSt]

My grandpa was living and working in India for a year ! He was shocked about the dirt and water condition ! With all the Beauty that India got ( Architecture) my grandpa disliked that country because if those two things ! People deserve to have an access to clean water

[dopaminefree]

Now its brother white fungus and green fungus will come.