Vox Sentences - India's coronavirus crisis

• White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced over the weekend that the US will send test kits, ventilators, personal protective equipment, and raw materials for vaccines to India as the country grapples with the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak. [NPR / Kat Lonsdorf]
• India reported more than 352,000 new cases Monday, the fifth straight day that the country has broken the world record for daily domestic cases. [CNN / Jessie Yeung]
• Doctors are clamoring for supplies on social media and in the newspapers. One hospital in Delhi saw 20 critical patients die after oxygen pressure dropped in the facility. [NYT / Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Hari Kumar, and Suhasini Raj]
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attracting much of the blame. He effectively declared the pandemic over months ago, after the success of India’s first lockdown, and has been campaigning feverishly for a slate of May elections since January. Modi only stopped holding rallies last Friday, he has encouraged Indians to participate in crowded religious ceremonies, and he repeatedly refused to acknowledge the growing scope of a second wave. [Time / Rana Ayyub]
• The second wave has been fueled by the B.1.617 variant, which is more transmissible and more elusive to vaccines than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. As places like Brazil and Mexico struggle with continuing spread, there’s an incentive for the global community to help limit the development of variants that can lead to new outbreaks. [NPR / Michaeleen Doucleff]
• The European Union, led by France and Germany, and the UK have all pledged to provide aid and resources to the Indian health care system. China is in contact with health authorities. Private firms like Microsoft and Google have also promised support. [CNBC / Saheli Roy Choudhury]

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• The Oscars were yesterday, and they fielded the most diverse slate of winners in history. Chloé Zhao took home the nod for Best Director; she’s the first woman of color and first Asian American ever to win the award. As Best Supporting Actress, Youn Yuh-jung became the first Korean actor to win an acting honor at the Oscars. [Variety / Patrick Frater]
• One massive snub? Chadwick Boseman. The 43-year-old was dying of cancer as he turned in the performance of his life in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He was widely tipped as the favorite, and the Academy seemed to agree when they flipped the order of awards so that the Oscar for Best Actor was given last, perhaps to afford the crowd some poignant moments to remember and mourn the late actor. Instead, the statue went to Anthony Hopkins for The Father. [The Hill / Christian Spencer]
• Troy Carter has been elected to replace Cedric Richmond in Louisiana in a special election for the House of Representatives. His victory, against fellow Democrat Karen Carter Peterson, was seen as pitting the moderate and progressive sides of the party against each other. Carter, the moderate who embraced GOP support, won easily. [Politico / Ally Mutnick]
• A dispute between the United States and Kenya means lifesaving HIV drugs are in short supply for the 1.4 million Kenyans who desperately need them. [Al Jazeera]