| As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=59201"><span class="small">Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Hari Kumar and Suhasini Raj, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Saturday, 24 April 2021 12:30 |
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Excerpt: "India's coronavirus second wave is rapidly sliding into a devastating crisis, with hospitals unbearably full, oxygen supplies running low, desperate people dying in line waiting to see doctors - and mounting evidence that the actual death toll is far higher than officially reported."
As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted24 April 21
NEW DELHI — India’s coronavirus second wave is rapidly sliding into a devastating crisis, with hospitals unbearably full, oxygen supplies running low, desperate people dying in line waiting to see doctors — and mounting evidence that the actual death toll is far higher than officially reported. Each day, the government reports more than 300,000 new infections, a world record, and India is now seeing more new infections than any other country by far, almost half of all new cases in a global surge. |
atalities have been overlooked or downplayed, understating the human toll of the country’s outbreak, which accounts for nearly half of all new cases in a global surge.