Posted on 04/16/2021 2:05:51 AM PDT by EBH
India's tally of total infections is second only to the United States, with experts blaming everything from official complacency to aggressive variants. The government has blamed failure to practice physical distancing.
The country has been producing oxygen at full capacity for each of the last two days but will have to turn to imports, with the health ministry saying it was planning to import 50,000 metric tons.
"The situation is horrible," said Avinash Gawande, an official at a government hospital in the industrial city of Nagpur that was battling a flood of patients, as were hospitals in neighboring Gujarat state and New Delhi in the north.
"We are a 900-bed hospital, but there are about 60 patients waiting and we don't have space for them." Maharashtra, home to the financial capital of Mumbai, began a lockdown at midnight on Wednesday, a move that spurred a rush to stockpile essential items in advance. The state, the country's most industrial, has been the worst affected by the pandemic.
COVID-positive patients - from a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler to many elderly - and their relatives kept streaming in to the emergency ward at LNJP, arriving by ambulance, car or auto-rickshaw throughout the day.
"Last year also we have not seen such a bad situation. This time the number is very high and increasing very rapidly, going (at a) very fast speed, so the situation is really alarming," said LNJP Medical Director Suresh Kumar.
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See my post #20
I honestly don’t know what to believe.
Israel Hayom is a conservative news outfit. They are usually more trustworthy than the left-wing operations.
Isn’t it sad that we live in an age where news organizations simply cannot be trusted. In most countries they have been taken over by left-wing zealots. To them progressive “truth” is more important than facts.
“Isn’t it sad that we live in an age where news organizations simply cannot be trusted.”
Yep, I get most of my news from offshore sources. The Daily Mail post articles everyday you would never see printed in the media in the US.
The crematorium story was posted in a English version of a Indian paper and tnheygave names. towns etc as sources so I feel it’s probabaly accurate.
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