Originally published on May 5, 2021 2:59 pm
MUMBAI, India Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen cylinder even an empty one.
Her mother was one of 140 COVID-19 patients in Saroj Hospital, one of the best-equipped hospitals in India s capital, New Delhi. She was on a ventilator in intensive care. Then the hospital told Gupta and other families that its oxygen supply had run out. So they had to go out and find oxygen cylinders to bring to the hospital to keep their loved ones alive. We are not getting full cylinders, so we are trying to find empty cylinders, because we can still get those filled, Gupta explained to local media outside the hospital last month. We re in contact with NGOs [in the hope that they have tanks that can fill cylinders], everybody! We re using every kind of pressure, every contact. We are desperate.
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‘Horrible Weeks Ahead as India s Virus Catastrophe Worsens India is witnessing scenes of people dying outside overwhelmed hospitals and funeral pyres lighting up the night sky By Aniruddha Ghosal •
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COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.”
India s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially have passed 220,000. Staggering as those numbers are, the true figures are believed to be far higher, the undercount an apparent reflection of the troubles in the health care system.
India tops 20 million cases amid warning of horrible weeks ahead
Aniruddha Ghosal
New Delhi – COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.”
India’s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially have passed 220,000. Staggering as those numbers are, the true figures are believed to be far higher, the undercount an apparent reflection of the troubles in the health care system.
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A man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of Covid-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India
Covid-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible”.
India’s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million on Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three months, while deaths officially passed 220,000.
Staggering as those numbers are, the true figures are believed to be far higher, the undercount an apparent reflection of the troubles in the health care system.