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India is seeing a huge spike in Covid-19 infections as this country finds itself in the grip of a second wave of the virus. The sheer number of patients coming into hospitals is huge and the healthcare system is working at its peak, Dr Jerryl Banait told BBC World News. “Every patient is being given…

Japan is headed for a general election on Sunday which is widely expected to keep Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in power. His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has led Japan for most of the last 65 years. Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes explains how it manages to keep its grip on power. Video by Jiro…

Companies are offering dietary advice based on customers’ propensity for certain heath conditions.

Armed forces minister James Heappey has said that British soldiers in Afghanistan are facing “extraordinary circumstances” at Kabul airport. UK troops were deployed to Kabul airport to aid the evacuation of people from the country, following the Taliban’s total takeover of Afghanistan. Mr Heappey told the BBC that while soldiers are helping with the evacuation,…

A national lockdown is not a solution to the current Covid-19 crisis in India, Gopal Agarwal, a spokesman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has told BBC World News. The states and districts of India had been given “a free hand” to deal with the pandemic, he said. And the level of infection varied…

A leading campaigner for women’s rights in Afghanistan was evacuated from Kabul last week, after going into hiding.