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People in need and those with information or resources are sharing telephone numbers of volunteers, vendors who have oxygen cylinders or drugs, and details of which medical facility can take patients using hashtags like #COVIDSOS. Many people are creating Twitter accounts to seek help from those in positions of power, officials manning helpline numbers said, but hundreds of millions of mainly poorer Indians do not have access to a smartphone or use social media. "Weve tried every helpline provi...

Losing hope: Indias COVID-19 meltdown exposes new front in digital divide Toggle share menu Advertisement Losing hope: Indias COVID-19 meltdown exposes new front in digital divide Many hospitals in India are running short of oxygen cylinders used to supply ventilators for COVID-19 patients. (File photo: AFP/Manjunath Kiran) 23 Apr 2021 11:28AM (Updated: 23 Apr 2021 11:30AM) Share this content Bookmark MUMBAI: As Indias daily coronavirus cases set global reco...

As India’s daily coronavirus cases set global records, people desperately searching for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders are finding help on social media. But for others like Ruby Yadav, who has never heard of Twitter, time and hope are running out. Travelling by rickshaw, Yadav and her mother – who is seriously ill with COVID-19 – have been turned away by nearly a dozen public hospitals in the northern city of Lucknow this week as the country’s health system crumbles. “I’m losing...

New Front in Digital Divide Exposed by Indias COVID-19 Meltdown While social media is being used to share information and resources, the poor and marginalised are left helpless without access to such information. Daily wage workers and homeless people wearing protective masks wait on the banks of Yamuna river as police officers arrange buses to transfer them to a shelter, during the lockdown last year. Photo: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Rights6 hours ago Lucknow/Mumbai: As India’s dail...