its lockdown for another week as the
country set a global record for daily
coronavirus infections for a fourth day
in a row
just under 350 000 new cases were
reported in the last 24 hours
prime minister Narendra Modi said that I
ndia had been shaken by a storm
and called on people to get vaccinated
simon jones has this report
patients continue to arrive at hospitals
struggling to breathe
needing urgent treatment but the health
system is close to collapse
almost three hundred and fifty thousand
new cases in the latest daily figures
another record this man is desperate to
find help for his sister in Delhi
i've been trying non-stop for three days
from one hospital to another
i've never seen anything so terrible
ever in my life
what's needed above all is oxygen
patients are dying
because it's running out
but these are the scenes inside man
hospitals pushed to their limits
the world health organization says the
situation in India
is a devastating reminder of what
coronavirus can do
and doctors are feeling the strain it's
been 20 years or so i've been into this
profession and
i've never seen this kind of a pricey
situation and i hope that nobody else
sees it
and we never see it again because the
kind of
numbers are there the lack of
infrastructure
we are facing the supplies and
the physical stress because it's a
highly contagious illness
so the healthcare workers are also
getting infected so it
it is acting as a double whammy as well
as having problem
from the manpower as well as the supply
so it is a very very difficult scenario
at this plant in the state of uttar
pradesh hospital staff are among those
queuing up
trying to get supplies of oxygen the g
overnment says it's distributing it to
some of the hardest hit areas
using the train and also the plane
the air force has been called in to help
customs duties on imports of medical
grade oxygen have been axed to try to
boost the availability
but critics say it's too little too late
earlier this year the government thought
it had beaten the virus
with cases falling vaccines were being
exported
and the health minister said India was
in the end game of the pandemic
but the emergence of new variants a
well as mass gatherings
has completely changed the picture the
us is promising additional support to
India to tackle what it's calling an
horrific
outbreak with record numbers of new
cases and deaths
there will be many tough days ahead.
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