As India set a world record for new coronavirus infections for the fourth day in a row, the United States joined several other countries pledging to provide medical aid to try to help mitigate the growing crisis. Amid pressure to do more, the White House partially lifted a ban against exporting raw materials needed to make vaccines. “The United States has identified sources of specific raw material urgently required for Indian manufacture of the Covishield vaccine that will immediately be made available for India,” Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said in a statement on Sunday. Covishield is the version of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine that is manufactured in India. The United States will also be providing drugs, test kids, ventilators, and personal protective equipment.
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NEW DELHI India s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors. For the fourth straight day, India on Sunday set a global daily record for new infections, spurred by an insidious, new variant that emerged here, undermining the government s premature claims of victory over the pandemic. The 349,691 confirmed cases over the past day brought India s total to more than 16.9 million, behind only the United States. The Health Ministry reported another 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing India s COVID-19 fatalities to 192,311.
. NEW DELHI With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning. The stories are told on social media and in television footage, showing desperate relatives pleading for oxygen outside hospitals or weeping in the street for loved ones who died waiting for treatment. One woman mourned the death of her younger brother, aged 50. He was turned away by two hospitals and died waiting to be seen at a third, gasping after his oxygen tank ran out and no replacements were to be had.
India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the country with terrifying speed.