Responding to Record Number of Cases, Citizen Volunteers Lead COVID Relief Effort in India
NEW DELHI A three-month-old baby boy from Nagpur city in central India was COVID positive and his desperate parents reached out on Twitter for help.
A team of volunteers called India Cares connected the parents with a volunteer pediatrician who virtually guided the parents, who were under quarantine. The child tested negative five days later.
“Thank you for arranging the doctor’s call. Directions from Doctor were helpful. Baby’s second test came negative,” the baby’s parents said in a message to Pallavi Kulshrestha, the Delhi-based India Cares volunteer who coordinates consultations with a team of 45 volunteer doctors who are attending to patients from around India.
As Pandemic Surges in India, US Offers Oxygen and Related Supplies
Experts say it should have come sooner
NEW DELHI The United States has decided to support India with oxygen cylinders, oxygen generation systems, oxygen concentrators, ventilators, therapeutics, personal protective equipment, tests, and other related supplies as India struggles with a huge surge in COVID cases. Critics say the help has been slow in coming.
For the past five days, India has set a new world record for a single-day increase in coronavirus cases, with over 300,000 new cases each day and a peak of 352,991 new cases on April 26. There have been over 17 million total cases since the pandemic began.
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