Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with shortages of beds and oxygen supplies some say they only have a few hours of oxygen supply left. Crematoriums are also starting to melt from operating for so long.
Prashant Kanojia, member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal party in India and a former journalist, on Sunday tweeted with the hashtag #CovidSOS that a hospital in Meerut, north India, needed urgent oxygen supplies.
In response to a thread by journalist Swati Chaturvedi to amplify people s requests for help, one Twitter user said her relative was a critical cancer patient who couldn t be transferred to ICU because there were no beds available.