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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

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."

Relatives mourning outside a hospital mortuary in Delhi after seeing bodies of Covid-19 victims on Friday. (photo: Atul Loke/NYT)
Relatives mourning outside a hospital mortuary in Delhi after seeing bodies of Covid-19 victims on Friday. (photo: Atul Loke/NYT)


As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Hari Kumar and Suhasini Raj, The New York Times

24 April 21

 

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.

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.

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