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The crisis engulfing India is deepening as the country records more than 370,000 new infections and over 3,500 deaths in the last 24 hours, but the true figure could be many times that. As families search for life-saving oxygen for their sick relatives, the UK is among over 40 countries sending medical equipment. The Indian army says it will open its healthcare facilities to civilians.

Only nine percent of India's population of around 1.4 billion people have been vaccinated so far, while funerals for the dead continue day and night.

Warning: Some of the images in this report are distressing.

Research by the University of Otago showed a rise in indicative male violence along with growing feelings of despondency and helplessness amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Google searches in the United States related to violence against women saw a sharp rise during the Covid-19 pandemic, a study published in The Journal of General Psychology says.

Published earlier this year, "Covid-19, suicide, and femicide: Rapid Research using Google search phrases", also shows a spike in searches related to suicide and suicidal thoughts.

It raises concerns about the wider public health costs of a pandemic that has already claimed more than 3 million lives.

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SINGAPORE — A 39-year-old man who refused to wear a mask while travelling aboard an MRT train was arrested on Sunday (9 May).

According to local media reports, the man was arrested for causing a public nuisance and flouting safe-distancing measures.

A widely circulated video over the weekend showed the man, who appears to be Caucasian, debating with other commuters on an East-West Line train about his reasons for not wearing a mask.

"I will never wear a mask," he says at one point to another commuter who is off-screen.

As the seated man calmly delivers his explanation – which includes something to do with researching "Bill Gates" and hating to see "uncles, granddads in their masks" – another commuter steps up to offer the man a face mask.

This leads the man to retort, "I'm not going to f**king put that [unintelligible word] on my face." The man's actions also appear to cause the commuters seated next to him to leave their seats.

In a statement, SMRT Corp said a police report had been made over the incident.

"We do not condone socially irresponsible behaviour that affects the safety of others, and strongly encourage our commuters to keep their mask on at all times and avoid talking on trains," said SMRT Corp's chief communications officer Margaret Teo.

Those convicted of not wearing a face mask in public face a fine of up to $10,000, a jail term of up to six months, or both.

Former child star of Silver Spoons, and current donor to Kyle Rittenhouse, Ricky Schroder went on an anti-mask rant at Costco.

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The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest per capita death rate.
 
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President Joe Biden said that he is asking the intelligence community to submit another report to him within 90 days on the origins of COVID-19.

CNN's Brianna Keilar rolls the tape on the credibility of the Wuhan lab leak theory or the possibility the coronavirus emerged from a lab in China.
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