Overwhelmed India running short of COVID-19 vaccines
By Adnan Abidi and Shilpa Jamkhandikar
Reuters
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Several states in India have run out of vaccines against COVID-19, exacerbating a dire second wave of infections that has left hospitals and morgues overflowing while families scramble for increasingly scarce medicines and oxygen. Come back to us. How will we live without you? wailed Aanchal Sharma and her mother-in-law over the lifeless body of her husband, waiting like so many others for their turn at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi.
In the parking lot, more than 10 ambulances containing corpses lined up while workers cleared ashes from pyres that had spilled over from the main cremation area.