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Covid-19 in India: A visual guide to the crisis.

A devastating second wave of coronavirus in India has seen hospitals and crematoriums overwhelmed and widespread shortages of oxygen and medicines.
Here's a visual guide to what is happening and what the authorities are doing about it.
There have been record numbers of cases and deaths
Case numbers and deaths in India are continuing to rise fast, fuelled by a new variant.
The country hit a record number of cases on Monday - the fifth time in a row - as well as its highest daily number of deatBut the true numbers of cases and deaths are likely to be higher than the numbers provided by authorities, with many people avoiding testing or struggling to access it. Many deaths in rural areas also go unregistered.
Doctors in India's capital Delhi have described how people are dying on the streets outside hospitals as the country struggles to cope.

In total, India has confirmed more than 17 million infections and 197,000 deaths. Virologists say they expect the rate of infections to continue to increase for another two to three weeks.
There are very few critical care beds
The country has a chronic shortage of space on its intensive care wards, with many patients' families forced to drive for miles to try to find a bed for their loved one.
In Delhi - a region of about 20 million people - hospitals are full and are turning away new patients.
Some streets outside medical facilities have become crowded with the seriously ill, their loved ones trying to arrange stretchers and oxygen supplies for them as they plead with hospital authorities for a place inside.

"We have been roaming around for three days searching for a bed," one man told Reuters news agency as his wife sat immobile on the pavement.
Woman on a Covid ward in India

On Monday, the government announced military medical infrastructure would be made available to civilians and retired medical military personnel would be helping out in Covid health facilities.

There's a shortage of oxygen
Hospitals across India are also experiencing oxygen shortages and in desperate need of supplies, with some forced to put up signs warning of a lack of supplies.
The country now has the greatest demand for oxygen out of all other lows, lower-middle and upper-middle-income countries, according to the PATH Oxygen Needs Tracker.

Demand has been growing between 6%-8% each day, according to PATH, an organisation that works with global institutions and businesses to tackle health problems Harjit Singh Bhatti, who works on a Covid ward of Delhi's Manipal Hospital, described watching people gasping for air in the street like "fish out of water".

"They are not getting oxygen and they are dying on the roads," he said.
Typically, healthcare facilities consume about 15% of the oxygen supply in India, leaving the rest for industrial use.

But amid India's second wave, nearly 90% of the country's oxygen supply - 7,500 metric tonnes daily - is being diverted for medical use, according to Rajesh Bhushan, a senior health official.
To try to get supplies to where they are needed, the government has now started an "oxygen express", with trains carrying tankers to wherever there is demand. The Indian Air Force is also airlifting oxygen from military bases.

The government has said it will be releasing oxygen supplies from armed forces reserves and has approved plans for more than 500 oxygen generation plants across the country to boost supplies.
 
Perhaps if a country that has imposed abject poverty on its citizens for decades didn't have a space programme they would have enough oxygen........
 

Danish Raza

Active Member
India has always had one of the highest rates of infant mortality; why don’t you care about that? Could it be because it’s not “contagious” to you? Or doesn’t impact on your freedom???
 
They have a nuclear programme, a space programme, and more billionaires and millionaires than the UK.
Their Government needs to get a grip of their domestic problems, better health service, better housing. It's not difficult
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Let's unite in prayers and Corona will be over.I know this lethal virus was intentionally created to wipe out some people so that the population could dwindle a little bit.Who ever created this virus should know that he has gone against God's will as such one day he shall face the wrath of God.I know some people are behind this virus since they are benefiting from it through money realized through selling of their vaccines.
 

ch adeel

Member
Are we just going to ignore the fact that during a pandemic that was nowhere near over, they started allowing 70k fans in to watch cricket with zero social distancing and very few masks in view..... What exactly did they think was going to happen?!
Whoever allowed that has blood on their hands.
Incredibly sad situation, and help is required, but can't help thinking it's been fuelled by stupidity.
 
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