India: Where oxygen is priceless
With hospitals in Delhi struggling as they run out of beds and oxygen, volunteer groups are putting their lives on the line to save people who have been turned away. DW reporters Nimisha Jaiswal and Sharique Ahmad have met a group running an oxygen service.
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What do Indian COVID patients go through after testing positive?
As India s health care system buckles under the weight of COVID, people are being left to fend for themselves. DW asked the daughter of a COVID patient about her experience trying to help her sick father.
Hospital staff are overworked as they try to care for a seemingly endless line of patients
Anamika (name changed) was making one phone call after another in the middle of the night on April 14 to get an ambulance and a hospital bed for her father, who was gasping for breath.
She found out earlier in the evening that both of her parents had tested positive for the coronavirus. But the condition of her father, who is in his early 60s, began deteriorating soon after midnight.
COVID in rural India poses parallel health care crisis
Millions of people living in underdeveloped areas outside India s cities are contracting COVID without access to treatment. Villagers have been flocking to stuffed city hospitals, raising transmission risks.
A makeshift crematorium in a rural area in India s West Bengal
India s coronavirus crisis is spreading outside major cities, with rural districts in at least 10 states recording a surge of cases and deaths in April.
Rural districts recorded more COVID-related deaths than urban districts for the first time last month, despite urban areas having higher overall cases, according to the How India Lives data repository.
Why are COVID cases surging in India?
New COVID infections in India are reaching record levels, and the health care system is being stretched to breaking point. Health expert Gautam Menon tells DW what went wrong, and when we can expect the surge to end.
A man suffering from COVID arrives in a taxi at a hospital in Ahmedabad, India
India recorded the world s highest-ever daily tally of 314,835 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday.
The South Asian nation s total cases are now at 15.93 million, while deaths rose by 2,104 over the past 24 hours to reach 184,657, according to the latest Health Ministry data.
India s hospitals locked in desperate fight against COVID-19
Authorities in India are scrambling to bolster health care infrastructure as the latest wave of coronavirus infections stretches hospitals to their breaking point. Many people are camping out in front of hospitals where their loved ones are being treated. DW s Nimisha Jaiswal reports.
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