India s crematoriums overwhelmed as COVID-19 patients scramble for medical help
With oxygen continuing to be in short supply, many family members in India are left on their own to ferry COVID-19 patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment, and crematoriums are expanding capacity amid a devastating new surge of infections.
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Posted: Apr 25, 2021 11:54 AM ET | Last Updated: April 25
A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 is consoled after a cremation in Jammu, India, on Sunday. For the fourth straight day, India set a global daily record of new COVID-19 infections, with 349,691 confirmed cases and another 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours. (Channi Anand/The Associated Press)
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India engulfed in a devastating new surge of COVID-19, overwhelming burial grounds and crematoriums
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A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 breaks down during cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors.AP Photo/Channi Anand
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NEW DELHI With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning.
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3 hours ago Desperate relatives of COVID-19 patients scramble to replenish their oxygen cylinders amid acute shortage of the gas. Reuters With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning.
The stories are told on social media and in television footage, showing desperate relatives pleading for oxygen outside hospitals or weeping in the street for loved ones who died waiting for treatment.