How India’s second wave became the worst COVID-19 surge in the world
The sudden spike in cases has brought the nation's healthcare system to its knees. There are no hospital beds, no oxygen, no medicines. And then there are the variants.
New DelhiDuring the past few weeks, Indian social media has been inundated with SOS messages: hospitals tweeting about dwindling oxygen supplies and physicians watching helplessly as patients perish from preventable deaths. A journalist pleading for but denied a hospital bed took to Twitter to log his deteriorating condition till he died. Overwhelmed crematoria are working round-the-clock to keep up with the pace of bodies; furnaces have melted down from overuse and additional funeral platforms are being built outside. Such are the heartbreaking messages and haunting images that highlight the formidable second wave of the coronavirus pandemic raging through the country.
India broke the world record for the most new coronavirus cases this week, surpassing 330,000 new cases on Friday,
