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India sets record for new COVID cases; oxygen running out
A patient with breathing problems is seen inside a car while waiting to enter a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave reuters tickers
This content was published on April 22, 2021 - 12:20
April 22, 2021 - 12:20
By Neha Arora and Sachin Ravikumar
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India recorded the world s highest daily tally of 314,835 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope.
Health officials across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, said they were in crisis, with most hospitals full and running out of oxygen.
India records world’s biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases
With 314,835 new cases the country s total tally reaches 15.93m, while deaths rise by 2,104 to reach total of 184,657
Reuters
April 22, 2021
Relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) mourn a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 21, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
NEW DELHI:
India marked a grim milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic on Thursday, reporting 314,835 new daily cases, the highest one-day tally anywhere, as its second wave and similar surges elsewhere raised new fears about the ability of health services to cope.
Hospitals across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, have issued notices to say they have only a few hours of medical oxygen required to keep Covid-19 patients alive.
By Neha Arora and Sachin Ravikumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India recorded the world s highest daily tally of 314,835 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope. Health officials across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, said they were in crisis, with most hospitals full and running out of oxygen. Some doctors were advising patients to stay at home, while a crematorium in the eastern city of Muzaffarpur said it was being overwhelmed with bodies and grieving families had to wait their turn. Right now there are no beds, no oxygen. Everything else is secondary, Shahid Jameel, a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, told Reuters. The infrastructure is crumbling. Some hospitals in New Delhi had run out of oxygen and authorities in neighbouring states were stopping supplies being taken to the capital to save it for their own nee