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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 hope. We know what will happen next, but I can’t bear to watch my mother collapse like this,” Yadav, 21, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone on Thursday.
New Front in Digital Divide Exposed by India s 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
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Lucknow/Mumbai: 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 is running out.