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Thursday, 22 April 2021 (YJC)_ India hits global record of 315,000 new daily cases as Covid wave worsens.
India registered 314,835 cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, the highest number of infections recorded in a single day in any country since the start of the pandemic, pushing the country’s hospitals to the brink.
The unprecedented spread of the virus, blamed on a more contagious strain as well as lax safety measures, has overwhelmed hospitals, creating severe shortages of beds, oxygen and medicines in major cities. Social media is flooded with desperate pleas from people whose relatives are sick but have been repeatedly turned away from hospitals.
Hospitals have warned they cannot cope with the demand, with some announcing that they have just a few hours’ supply of oxygen left.
“Covid-19 has become a public health crisis in India leading to a collapse of the healthcare system,” Krutika Kuppalli, assistant professor at the division of infectious diseases, Medical University of South Carolina in the United States, said on Twitter.
In Maharashtra state in western India, at least 24 Covid-19 patients died on Wednesday when the oxygen supply to their ventilators ran out due to a leak. The state tightened its lockdown late on Wednesday night, announcing that all offices, travel by private vehicles is permitted only for medical emergencies, and only medical workers and government employees may use the train system.
A total of 2,104 deaths were registered on Wednesday, a record high for India. More than 1 million cases have ben recorded in the past four days.
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