Indian Officials Report More Than 117 People Dying From COVID Every Hour On 4/26/21 at 11:42 AM EDT A shortage of oxygen and surging COVID rates are ravaging hospitals in India, which reported Monday that more than 117 people in the country are dying every hour as its total amount of infections reached more than 17.3 million. Desperate doctors are pleading for oxygen canisters for their dying patients on social media as the country set a new infection record for the fifth day in a row with more than 350,000. "I feel helpless because my patients are surviving hour to hour," Dr. Gautam Singh told the