Bhuma Shrivastava And Chris Kay Bloomberg

Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.

For months, developed economies have hoarded Covid-19 vaccines and the raw materials needed to make them. Now, they're being forced to act as an explosive outbreak in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world.

Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.

For months, developed economies have hoarded Covid-19 vaccines and the raw materials needed to make them. Now, they're being forced to act as an explosive outbreak in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world.