People in B.C. with ties to India are feeling anxious and helpless as family members there struggle to stay safe and get treatment for COVID-19, cases of which are now increasing by more than 300,000 every day.
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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)
India Coronavirus Patients Suffocate Amid Oxygen Shortage And Devastating Case Surge
For the third day in a row, India set a global daily record of new COVID-19 infections and thousands died.
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Indian authorities scrambled Saturday to get oxygen tanks to hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid the world’s worst coronavirus surge, as the government came under increasing criticism for what doctors said was its negligence in the face of a foreseeable public health disaster.
For the third day in a row, India set a global daily record of new infections. The 346,786 confirmed cases over the past day brought India’s total to more than 16 million, behind only the United States. The Health Ministry reported another 2,624 deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing India’s COVID-19 fatalities to 189,544. Experts say even those figures are likely an undercount.