Bodies of 22 coronavirus victims are stuffed into an overloaded ambulance in India - as experts raise the terrifying prospect of 30,000 deaths a day with warning that real infections are TEN TIMES higher than official count
Police snatched the phones out of people s hands as they tried to photograph the ambulance in city of Beed
It is seen sagging under the weight of 22 corpses piled on top of each other before heading to
crematorium
Another 386,452 infections and 3,498 deaths were recorded on Friday - but medics have warned the true figures could be up to ten times higher - meaning there are 3 million infections and 30,000 deaths every day
Free oxygen at Sikh temples as India’s COVID crisis worsens Al Jazeera English
An acute shortage of medical oxygen has worsened India’s ferocious second wave of the coronavirus, with hospitals forced to turn patients back as families scramble to arrange oxygen cylinders for their loved ones being treated at home.
Indian social media is replete with accounts of people dying for lack of oxygen, which is being sold at humongous prices in black markets where a cylinder is being sold at as much as 30 times its actual cost.
In such a scenario, at least two gurdwaras or Sikh temples in and around the capital, New Delhi, have arranged an “oxygen langar” to provide free oxygen to the COVID-19 patients who need it.
India Covid crisis: Vaccination centres close in Mumbai
Reuters/Mumbai
The country posted another record daily rise in coronavirus cases.
All vaccination centres in India s financial capital of Mumbai were shut for three days starting Friday due to a shortage of vaccines, said authorities, as the country posted another record daily rise in coronavirus cases.
India reported 386,452 news cases on Friday, while deaths from Covid-19 jumped by 3,498 over the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data.
However, medical experts believe actual Covid-19 numbers in the world s second-most populous nation may be five to 10 times greater than the official tally.
India has added about 7.7 million cases since the end of February, when its second wave picked up steam, according to a Reuters tally. In contrast, it took India nearly six months to add the previous 7.7 million cases.
Gurdware in and around New Delhi has organized an ‘oxygen barrier’ to provide oxygen to patients in need for free.
A severe shortage of health oxygen has worsened as a result of the second hard wave of coronavirus in India. Hospitals are forced to bring patients back, while loved ones who treat their families at home try to organize oxygen cylinders.
India’s social networks are riddled with accounts of people dying from lack of oxygen, as they are sold at black prices on black markets, as a cylinder sells for 30 times the actual cost.
In this scenario, at least two gurdwars or Sikh temples, in and around the capital of New Delhi, have organized an “oxygen barrier” to provide free oxygen to COVID-19 patients who need it.