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Indians are taking to social media to beg for hospital beds, oxygen and medicine for sick relatives as hospitals buckle under a coronavirus surge.
The country has now registered more than 15.6 million coronavirus cases and 181,000 deaths. After strict lockdowns brought the spread of the pandemic under control, cases began to rise again in March, topping over 250,000 new cases daily this week.
As authorities and hospitals struggle to deal with the deluge of new patients every day, families are making frantic appeals on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and even dating app Tinder to amplify their pleas for plasma donors, medicines, hospital beds and oxygen.