toll of more than 380,000. the real number could stretch into the millions. and if that wasn t bad enough, doctors are now seeing another disease, specifically, in rural areas that attacks covid survivors, and it kills half the people who get it. it s called mucormycosis, a fungus found in soil, dangerously prevalent where hygiene is lacking and deadly when a patient s immunity is weakened by coronavirus and the steroids used to treat the severely ill says dr. chand wattal of new delhi s ganga ram hospital. lot of mortality, if left undiagnosed and untreated. every hospital across the country is seeing these kinds of cases. reporter: more than 28,000 indians have contracted the infection officials say, to save them doctors commonly have to remove sinus tissue even the eyes. it s a huge shock to the family. reporter: adding to terror to the nation already suffering so
we ll be going back to university coventry hospital shortly, where the world s first coronavirus vaccine was administered outside of clinical trials back in december. it s also one of 17 nhs hubs across england which received special funding to help ease the backlog of patients waiting for operations, which has built up during the pandemic. the latest figures from nhs england show that more than five million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of april this year. that s the highest number since comparable figures started being recorded in 2007. more than 380,000 people had been waiting for more than a year that s around 35 times the figure before the pandemic. and more than 2,500 patients had been waiting at least two years for planned operations. hernia operations and orthopaedic treatment were among the procedures with the longest wait times. dan can pick up on that, as he is on the orthopaedics ward at university hospital coventry.
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