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India grieves 200,000 dead with many more likely uncounted April 28, 2021 April 28, 2021
By Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi and Aniruddha Ghosal
NEW DELHI Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of India’s largest state.
But the hospital wouldn’t let him in without a registration slip from the district’s chief medical officer. By the time the son got it, his father had died in the car, just outside the hospital doors.
“My father would have been alive today if the hospital had just admitted him instead of waiting for a piece of paper,” Rohitas Karan said.
Are all the doctors lying? Are all the family members making false statements?”
In face of insistent denial by the government at the Centre and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled State governments on the shortage of oxygen, vaccines or medicines, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram said, “People must revolt against a government that is assuming all the people of India are fools.”
In a series of tweets Mr. Chidambaram said that both Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and U.P. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s recent comments
Pointing to news reports in various television channels, Mr. Chidambaram asked if they were telecasting fake visuals. He also asked, “Are all the newspaper stories incorrect? Are all the doctors lying? Are all the family members making false statements? Are all the visuals and photographs fake?”
India grieves 200,000 dead, with likely many more uncounted
By SHEIKH SAALIQ, KRUTIKA PATHI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL The Associated Press,Updated April 28, 2021, 8:25 a.m.
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Relatives, friends and graveyard workers prepared to lower the body of a coronavirus victim during the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi on Wednesday.SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images
NEW DELHI (AP) â Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of Indiaâs largest state of Uttar Pradesh. But the hospital wouldnât let him in without a registration slip from the districtâs chief medical officer. By the time the son got it, his father had died in the car, just outside the hospital doors.
India's daily deaths have nearly tripled in the past three weeks, crossing the 200,000 mark this week. But the true death toll is actually believed to be far higher.