Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccines campaign that will begin over the weekend as the death toll from the coronavirus in the country exceeded 200,000 on Wednesday, compounded by the shortage of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
According to the data recorded by the health officials, in the last week, as many as 300,000 people have been testing positive every day, overwhelming health facilities and crematoriums, and increasingly urgent response from deployments from teams from around the world.
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However, it was also the deadliest day to date, with 3,293 deaths, bringing the death toll to 201,187. Experts believe the official figure greatly underestimates the true number of victims in a nation of 1.35 billion. “The situation is terrible, absolutely terrible …, every person people are afraid that if I am talking to a person, I may not be able to speak to them tomorrow or in the near future, “said Manoj Garg, a resident of New Delhi.
Delhi state reports a death from COVID-19 every four minutes, and ambulances have been taking the bodies of COVID-19 victims to the crematorium facilities. The Genesis Hospital in Delhi’s suburb of Gurgaon urged families to take patients with them because their life-saving oxygen supplies were running low, and they were running out quickly, one family said.
They told us we had to make alternative arrangements, “said Anjali Cerejo, whose father had been admitted but now has to try to find another bed elsewhere. Outside of hospitals, people in carts and bicycle carts lined up with their loved ones.
In its weekly epidemiological update, the World Health Organization said that India accounted for 38% of the 5.7 million cases reported worldwide last week. Variant 617 of the virus detected in India had a higher growth rate than other variants in the country, suggesting higher transmutability, he said. “The current wave is particularly dangerous,” he said. “It is highly contagious, and those who get it may not recover quickly.”
