Hospitals Overrun as India’s COVID-19 Infections Surge

Hospitals Overrun as India’s COVID-19 Infections Surge
Relatives sit next to the dead bodies of COVID-19 victims at a municipal electric crematorium in Allahabad, India, on April 22, 2021. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP via Getty Images
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People across India scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies on Friday and patients lay dying outside hospitals as the country recorded over 300,000 new COVID-19 cases a day for two days straight.

India’s second wave has hit with such ferocity that hospitals are running out of oxygen, beds, and anti-viral drugs. Many patients have been turned away because there was no space for them, doctors in Delhi said.