Appeals for oxygen and other medial supplies as hospitals overwhelmed Alamy Covid-19 patients are treated in a converted sports complex in New Delhi, on Tuesday INDIA has become a “valley of death” as the Covid crisis worsens and supplies of oxygen and vaccines fail, church leaders report. The Revd Moumita Biswas, of the Church of North India, said: “We are in a death-trap now; it has become a valley of death. Before this wave hit, we just knew the numbers — but now it’s our family members, our relatives, our church leaders who have died.” Bishops have appealed for the prayers of the rest of the world. The CNI Bishop of Nagpur, the Rt Revd Andrew Rathod, said that churches had now closed owing to a lockdown in his diocese, but burial grounds were overflowing (News, 30 April, 23 April).