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COVID-19: Doctors scramble for oxygen supplies as India's coronavirus crisis worsens Nearly two weeks after India began hitting global record highs with the number of daily coronavirus infections, hospitals are still suffering from an acute shortage of oxygen supplies. The capital's authorities have asked for the army to be brought in to help set up and run coronavirus health facilities in New Delhi. Our Sky News team spent the day in a New Delhi hospital and found the doctors in a continuous desperate search for supplies - despite the central government urging its citizens not ...

Inside the ‘war room’ connecting India’s Covid sick with hospitals and medicine As the country’s healthcare system collapses, volunteers step up to fill the void left by government inaction Health workers treat Covid-19 patients at a makeshift hospital in New Delhi, India Credit: STR/AP Sandwiched between a rooftop bar and an arcade of clothes shops, the small call centre does not look like the frontline in the fight against India’s devastating Covid-19 epidemic. But once the doors swing open, there is a flurry of activity inside the aptly-named war room in India’s financial capit...

Amit Roy   |     |   Published 01.05.21, 03:05 AM How is India’s Covid nightmare — the images from the cremation grounds will haunt us for a long time — being reported in the UK? Journalists have relied on Indian consultants in the NHS and now their counterparts in India to tell us what’s been going on. Dr Zarir Udwadia from Mumbai told Mishal Husain on BBC Radio 4: “The situation is beyond crisis point... This virus has a country of 1.4 billion firmly in a stranglehold. And i...

A Covid-19 patient at the emergency ward at Holy Family Hospital in Delhi | Danish Siddiqui/Reuters The devastation caused by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India is being particularly felt in the capital. In Delhi, death and despair have maintained lockstep with the virus’s unrelenting spread. Delhi on Thursday reported 24,235 infections and 395 official deaths, although reports from the city’s crematoriums suggest that the toll is much higher. Heart-rending pleas for oxygen cylinders and medical drugs fill social media. Whole families have fallen sick...

THE STANDARD ASIA By Reuters | April 29th 2021 Healthcare workers place the body of a person, who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), on the ground for cremation at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 28, 2021. [Reuters] India’s total Covid-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, health ministry data show for it...