Topline In India, which is averaging more than 2,000 Covid-related fatalities and 300,000 new infections per day, understaffed hospitals are running out of beds for patients and pleading with government authorities for desperately-needed medical supplies, while crematoriums and graveyards are being overwhelmed. Undertakers wearing protective suits carry a body next to a burning funeral pyre of a person who … [+] died from Covid-19. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Key Facts India’s Ministry of Health and Welfare reported a staggering 346,786 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, shattering the record for most infections by any country in a single 24-hour span. Fortis Healthcare suspended new admissions to its hospitals in Delhi, according to Reuters, which also reported families have been forced to tend to the ill in the streets and hospital hallways. Moolchand Hospital in New Delhi tweeted Saturday morning it had “less than 2 hours of oxygen” for 135 Covid patients, many on life support. According to the New York Times, crematoriums in Kanpur are so backed up that corpses are being burned in the city’s parks. Outside of a crematorium in Lucknow, bodies were… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Haunting Images From The Covid-19 Crisis In India
