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Anderson Cooper 360

India experiencing world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

India is currently experiencing the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak with daily cases and deaths rising every day. Bodies are being burned in makeshift crematoriums and hospitals are running low on supplies, some on the verge of collapse. CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward takes AC360 to New Delhi to show just how dire the situation is there. Plus, Cindy McCain joins Anderson Cooper to discuss her new memoir, the future of the Republican party and her late husband Sen. John McCain’s legacy.   Airdate: April 29, 2021   Guests: Clarissa Ward Cindy McCain To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And good evening.

0:01.0

We're going to start tonight with the story that we wish we were not doing.

0:04.4

And with pictures and video we wish we had not seen.

0:07.3

There is a lot else in the program.

0:08.7

There are new developments in the case against Rudy Giuliani and the wake of yesterday's

0:11.8

search targeting him, including what he had to say about it all just this evening.

0:15.5

We'll also talk with Cindy McCain about what's become of her Republican party and what she

0:19.8

thinks about possibly serving in a Democratic president's administration.

0:23.6

We begin those seemingly a world away from those things, except what is happening right

0:27.3

now across India isn't far removed.

0:30.4

COVID has shown that every move the virus makes is potentially a local story too, to

0:34.1

everyone anywhere in the world.

0:36.3

But interest in this latest horrific uncontained outbreak goes beyond the biological fact

0:40.6

that pathogens travel, where the demographic fact that this country has a large and thriving

0:45.0

Indian American community was strong ties back home.

0:48.2

There is also the larger human truth that empathy also travels.

0:52.2

Compassion flows forward outward along with the tools and initiative to harness it.

0:57.0

So right now with India reporting a record of 3,645 new deaths and nearly 380,000 new cases,

1:04.5

we begin with a deeply troubling but badly needed report from the United States Chief

1:07.6

International Correspondent, Clearsal Ward, who joins us now from New Delhi.

1:11.5

Clearsal, what have you been seeing?

1:17.3

Anderson, this is truly a terrifying and epic crisis.

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