By SHEIKH SAALIQ | Associated Press | Published: April 26, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. NEW DELHI Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors across India, which on Monday set another record for new coronavirus infections for a fifth day in a row at more than 350,000, the cardiologist has taken to begging and borrowing cylinders of oxygen just to keep patients alive for one more day.
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Family members of a person who died due to COVID-19 perform the last rites at a crematorium in Jammu, India, on Apr 26, 2021. (Photo: AP/Channi Anand)
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NEW DELHI: Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signalling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works.
Like other doctors across India, which on Monday (Apr 26) set another record for new coronavirus infections for a fifth day in a row at more than 350,000, the cardiologist has taken to begging and borrowing cylinders of oxygen just to keep patients alive for one more day.
India was initially seen as a success story in weathering the pandemic, but the virus is now racing through its population of nearly 1.4 billion, and systems are beginning to collapse.
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SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India s health system
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1of18Family members of a person who died due to COVID-19 perform the last rites at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Monday, April 26, 2021.Channi Anand/APShow MoreShow Less
2of18Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India, Monday, April 26, 2021.Channi Anand/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of18Family members of a person who died due to COVID-19 light the funeral pyre at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Monday, April 26, 2021.Channi Anand/APShow MoreShow Less
5of18One among the countless messages in Twitter calling for help in the face of the pandemic in India. As staggering numbers of Indian families deal with death and serious illness amid a devastating virus surge, countless desperate pleas for help on social media have exposed the collapse of India’s already teetering health system. Social media has beco