India Covid crisis: Trainee doctors pulled from exams to fight world’s biggest coronavirus surge
Reuters/New Delhi Filed on May 4, 2021 | Last updated on May 4, 2021 at 08.40 am
Medical experts say actual numbers in India could be five to 10 times higher than those reported.
India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.
The total number of infections so far rose to just short of 20 million, propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 300,000 new cases in a pandemic sparked by a virus first identified in central China at the end of 2019.
India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday
Reuters
May 04, 2021
People carry a body of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India May 3, 2021. REUTERS
India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.
The total number of infections so far rose to just short of 20 million, propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 300,000 new cases in a pandemic sparked by a virus first identified in central China at the end of 2019.
Tuesday, May 04, 2021, 09:47 GMT+7
A volunteer uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation of a man s blood before providing him oxygen support for free at a Gurudwara (Sikh temple), amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, India, May 3, 2021. Photo: Reuters
India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.
The total number of infections so far rose to just short of 20 million, propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 300,000 new cases in a pandemic sparked by a virus first identified in central China at the end of 2019.
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Trainee Indian doctors pulled from exams to fight world’s biggest Covid surge
Number of cases so far rose to just short of 20M, propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 300,000 new cases
Reuters
May 03, 2021
A medical worker tends to a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), inside the ICU ward at Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.