A surge in cases in some Indian states has scientists worried about a possible new wave.

All travellers from India, including New Zealand citizens, will not be able to enter the country until April 28.

Hundreds of thousands take a dip in Ganges river even as the nation racks up world’s highest tally of new daily cases.

The new wave will hurt global efforts and vaccine supplies, experts say. Researchers are scrambling to assess whether new coronavirus variants are playing a role in India.

India's government and parts of the media ignored warnings about a rising wave of cases, experts say.

The city of Delhi is beginning a week of restrictions, as local governments there and elsewhere struggle to cope with a second wave of the coronavirus.

It means most travel to the UK from India will be banned from 04:00 BST on Friday, amid Covid concerns.

(Corrects para 4 to show India decommissioned high denomination banknotes in 2016, not 2014)

Gas and firewood furnaces at a crematorium in the western Indian state of Gujurat have been running so long without a break during the COVID-19 pandemic that metal parts have begun to melt.

In India, the world's biggest vaccine producer, millions of people are waiting for Covid-19 vaccines amid a devastating second wave of infections.

There were scenes of chaos in India overnight as New Delhi — a megacity of almost 20 million — went into a week-long lockdown amid an explosive rise in coronavirus cases.

A deadly second wave has overrun hospitals and even crematoriums in India.

Editorial: The Indian prime minister’s overconfidence lies behind the country’s disastrous Covid-19 response

As Covid cases spike, countryside physicians say hospital space is scarce while most infections go unreported

India, home to the world's worst ongoing coronavirus outbreak, has reported more than 17.6 million cases since the pandemic began last year.

The country is now facing the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, and a devastating humanitarian crisis

Modi is facing what appears to be the country’s biggest crisis since independence.

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who...

Diplomats have not been spared the wave of infections sweeping the country. In an embarrassing development for the government, some have made public appeals for assistance.

From a lack of investment in public healthcare to mishandling vaccine production, India's far-right BJP government has failed its people during the pandemic – and paved the way for the present Covid...

The scenes of suffering in India are hard to comprehend. As of May 4, more than 20·2 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported, with a rolling average of 378 000 cases a day, together with more...

The science of covid-19 treatments is fast moving. However, India’s health ministry is failing to keep pace, leaving a confusing and harmful vacuum, writes Priyanka Pulla When Santosh Gaggar was...

UN health agency classifies the coronavirus mutation detected in India as ‘a variant of concern at the global level’.