India
The COVID-19 situation in India continues to be desperate. Today, the military was ordered in to help with the response as health services remain overwhelmed. Other nations are, finally, also stepping in to help with nations including the UK, Germany and the US pledging to send medical aid, including oxygen supplies and ventilators.
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UK
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is coming under pressure to resign following allegations he said he would rather see bodies pile up than order another lockdown.
“Faced with fury from relatives of the bereaved, Johnson and senior ministers emphatically denied he said “no more fucking lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands” after reluctantly approving a second England-wide lockdown late last year.”
Iran
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British woman who has been held in Tehran for five years, has been sentenced to another year in prison, her lawyer said today. Rights groups say the charges against her - related to plotting to overthrow the government - are nonsense and that Iran is using her as a bargaining chip.
More from the Associated Press here.