Reporting On The Crisis In India with Niha Masih
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🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The coronavirus crisis in India continues to escalate, with the World Health Organization warning of a potentially more transmissible variant and the country reporting over 240,000 deaths. To get a better sense of the situation on the ground, we spoke with Niha Masih. She's a Washington Post reporter in New Delhi.
And in headlines: Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip kill over 33 Palestinians, missile launches by Hamas kill two in Israel, and the NRA's bankruptcy filing is thrown out by a federal judge. Plus, Erin Ryan fills in for Akilah Hughes.
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Follow Washington Post reporter Niha Masih's coverage on the pandemic in India – https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/niha-masih/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 12th. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Erin Ryan in Forakila Hughes. |
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| 0:21.7 | Yeah, I've gone arthritic over the last two years. |
| 0:35.2 | On today's show, a firsthand view of the devastation caused by the pandemic in India. |
| 0:39.0 | It's not always that journalists run out of words, but this is one of those situations, |
| 0:44.6 | unfortunately. |
| 0:45.6 | That's Nihah Masi, a Washington Post reporter in New Delhi. |
| 0:49.1 | He's been covering the crisis there, which hard to believe continues to get worse and worse. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah, I mean, there have been recent reports of bodies washing up on the banks of the |
| 0:57.6 | Ganges concerns about the spread of COVID-19 beyond major more resource metropolitan areas, |
| 1:03.6 | which are ready struggled in the World Health Organization raising alarm about it potentially |
| 1:07.3 | more transmissible variant. |
| 1:09.2 | The country has reported over 240,000 deaths and most experts unanimously say that that |
| 1:14.6 | is a vast undercount. |
| 1:16.5 | It's really, really tragic to see yet another government of yet another country just be caught |
| 1:22.0 | on its heels like this. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, it really is. |
| 1:25.5 | So I had a one-on-one conversation with Masi earlier so she could better describe the |
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