Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Shutdown in Nepal and Laos continues

Please remember the people in these countries in your prayers.   The country of Laos has been in shutdown mode for more than a month.  Our girls are safe at home studying their books, doing their crafts, such as macrame, sewing and embroidery, gardening and keeping up with their chores at home.   Nepal has recently shutdown for the 2nd time this year.  Girls are all in the safe houses, studying, learning to cook, playing games and reading their Bibles.   Our workers keep us well-informed by staying in touch by cellphone with the ministers overseeing the girls.  Workers cannot travel to the various safe house due to restrictions on travel.   Only essential ambulances and food delivery trucks are allowed on the roads.   Our relief work to feed the people will be on hold until workers can travel to distribute sacks of rice again.    

 India on Wednesday reported more coronavirus deaths in a single day than any other country at any time during the pandemic, while infections continued to spread through vast rural areas with weak health systems.   The Health Ministry reported a record 4,529 deaths in the past 24 hours, driving India's confirmed fatalities to 283,248. It also reported 267,334 new infections, as daily cases remained below 300,000 for the third consecutive day. The numbers are almost certainly undercounts.  The previous record for most daily deaths from the coronavirus was set on Jan. 12 in the United States, when 4,475 people died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.


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