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From Our Own Correspondent: Can India cope with Covid-19?

12/09/2020

Can India cope with Covid-19?

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Stories on Covid-19 in India, and from Japan, Poland, Argentina and France.

Stories on how India is coping with rising Covid-19 cases, on the Japanese prime minister, homosexuality in Poland, wildfires in Argentina and nudists in France. With Kate Adie.

India now has the second highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world, having overtaken Brazil. This is placing huge demands on hospitals and ambulances. The medical services, particularly in smaller cities and rural areas, can find it hard to cope, sometimes leading to what relatives think were  preventable deaths, as Yogita Limaye reports. 
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is retiring. His politically conservative party will elect his successor on Monday.  Mr Abe has taken his observers by surprise more than once. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo looks at the effect of those surprises, and at his legacy. 
In Poland, some politicians’ hostility to gay rights has become a flash-point in a culture war pitting the religious right against the more liberal-minded. Last month the EU denied funding to six Polish towns which had declared themselves “LGBT  ideology-free zones”.  Lucy Ash has been to one of them, Tuchow.
Wildfires have raged through central and northern Argentina for most of the year. Apart from forests and grasslands, about half a million acres of wetlands next to the mighty Parana river have been lost in the worst fires in over a decade. This has endangered livelihoods and sparked concern among environmentalists, as Natalio Cosoy reports. 
Cap d'Agde on the French Mediterranean coast is home to the biggest nudist resort in Europe. But with France’s recent surge in coronavirus cases, how have the naturists and also the considerable number of swingers there fared with the restrictions? Chris Bockman went to find out. 

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