Infections wreak havoc on the health system, spreading from towns to vast countryside. FMTNews Covid19 India
Exhausted workers rest on the rear step of an ambulance at a cremation site in New Delhi on April 24.
With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to the surge in infections, the World Health Organization said in a weekly report that India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week and a quarter of the deaths.India’s Covid-19 crisis has been most acute in the capital, New Delhi, among other cities, but in rural areas — home to nearly 70% of India’s 1.3 billion people — limited public healthcare is posing more challenges.
“People are scared and huddled in their homes with fever and cough. The symptoms are all of Covid-19, but with no information available many think it is seasonal flu.”“Phase 3 is inevitable, given the high levels of circulating virus,” the government’s principal scientific adviser, K VijayRaghavan told a news briefing on Wednesday.
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