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Last modified on Sat 24 Apr 2021 14.50 EDT
Indiaâs daily Covid deaths and infections hit new records on Saturday, but doctors and bereaved families have warned that even these bleak official statistics are seriously underestimating the scale of the countryâs tragedy.
As a court in Delhi said India is facing not just a second wave but a âtsunamiâ, and hospitals had to turn patients away as they ran out of both beds and oxygen, people in many parts of India are still avoiding testing or struggling to access it.
âThe figures on Covid infections that the government is releasing are actually an underestimate,â Dr Manas Gumta, general secretary of the Association of Health Service Doctors in West Bengal, told the