More and more people have succumbed to COVID in India. The nation’s health system is expected to get more support from other nations while enduring a period during which oxygen and other medical supplies are stretched thin, and the hospitals were plagued by the catastrophe.
India’s health ministry reported the largest number of COVID-19-related deaths on record, as at least 3,293 people succumbed to the virus in the past day, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 201,187. The death toll is expected to rise even further in the coming weeks as COVID continues to plague the country’s fragile healthcare system.
Since the onset of the pandemic, India, the second populous country in the world, has endured several waves of COVID-19, despite gargantuan efforts to fight the disease being underway for a year already.
Some rich countries, including China and the United States, have realised it will likely take a long time for the world to succeed in the fight against COVID. So, clearly, it is difficult for India to weather the worst of the pandemic, as the virus is literally carrying out rampages across the nation. Many say the virus is adding insult to injury, because before the recent surge, there had already been a large number of COVID cases in the country.
The recent surge in the number of COVID diagnoses and deaths has brought the health system to its knees, and inundated medical workers, as hospitalisations and deaths have reached record highs.
Medical workers are helpless despite their determination to fight the disease due to a lack of medical supplies. Equally telling are oxygen supplies.
Owing to a lack of medical equipment and oxygen supplies, scenes of patients trying their best to breathe and some breathing their last are not a rare sight. Train carriages are completed changed into beds for patients to rest.
Foreign and neighbouring nations have been offering help lately, as they have been helping either via sending oxygen generators, ICU gear, or sharing raw materials for vaccine production.
Authorities are also struggling to deal with a deluge of dead bodies of COVID victims. Some poor Indians have to cremate the dead bodies of their family members who lost their lives in the battle against COVID.
India’s poor hygiene situation now sheds light on the cause of the deaths of a large number of Indians.
Meantime, experts believe a lack of progress in India’s nationwide vaccination programme is to blame for the recent surge in the number of COVID cases. So far, only 10 percent of the country’s population have got one jab, but just over 1.5 percent have been fully vaccinated.
India’s Prime Minister once again urged Indians to avoid attending large gatherings during Hindu festivals in the coming months.
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