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For a fourth day in a row, India has set an unwelcome world record for the number of new coronavirus infections: a further 349,691 cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, with another 2,767 lives lost. The capital, Delhi, is one of the worst-hit areas. The BBC's Vikas Pandey reports from a city whose hospitals are overwhelmed and whose citizens are in desperation.

When Ashwin Mittal's grandmother's oxygen saturation level dropped a week ago, he started frantically looking for a hospital bed in Delhi. He called everybody he could, but every hospital refused.

Her condition deteriorated further on Thursday and he took her to the emergency rooms of several hospitals, but every place was full. They accepted the fate that she was going to die without getting any treatment. But she was gasping for every breath and Ashwin just couldn't bear it after a while.

He took her in his car and went from one hospital to another for several hours until one in north Delhi agreed to take her in the emergency for "a few hours". He was to continue looking for a bed.

Ashwin, who has also tested positive for coronavirus, continued his search while battling a high fever and severe body aches. But he couldn't find a bed, and the hospital continued to keep his grandmother in the emergency ward on compassionate grounds.

Doctors there said she needed an ICU and had a good chance of survival. A family friend told me that the hospital was planning to discharge her on Sunday as it was running out of oxygen.

"The family is back to where they started and has accepted the fate. They know that if she survives, it will be because of a miracle, not because of any treatment," the friend said.

Miracles are what many families in Delhi are left to rely on. Most hospitals are full and many of them are refusing new admissions owing to the uncertainty over oxygen supply.

Oxygen-equipped ambulances are in short supply and it's becoming difficult for families to transport patients to hospitals even if they find a bed.

At least 20 people died on Saturday at the Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi because of a lack of oxygen. Hospitals are sending SOS messages frantically every day, saying they have just few hours of oxygen left.

I know a few cases where patients have died because they did not get high-flow oxygen support. Every morning starts with frantic calls from friends, family and colleagues asking for a bed, oxygen cylinders or medicines. The number of people I am able to help is reducing every day as the doctors and officials who could earlier help are no longer available to speak on the phone. Helplines are not working and the vendors who could earlier help have run out of supplies.

I go to bed with a sense of defeat every night, but then pick myself up and start in the morning again as more and more people call for help. I can understand their helplessness as I lost a cousin a few days ago in a top hospital in the city. He waited for 18 hours to get a ventilator but the hospital didn't have any.

That's how Delhi is functioning at the moment. Friends are calling friends; social media is awash with desperate pleas for help.

But it's almost impossible to find a hospital bed here now. Oxygen cylinders and medicines are in short supply. On Saturday, Saroj Hospital and Batra Hospital told families to take their patients away as they were running out of oxygen.

The city has been been reporting more than 24,000 cases daily in the past few days. The hospitals are completely overrun, and healthcare workers are exhausted.

Some people I know are taking dangerous journeys with their critically ill relatives to other cities which are 300-500km (18-300 miles) away. Sivesh Rana's brother was in a critical condition but he couldn't find a bed in Delhi and decided to take him in an ambulance to a city in the neighbouring state of Haryana.

But his condition worsened during the journey and the ambulance wasn't equipped to deal with a critical patient. He died a few hours after arriving at the hospital.

Dr A Fathahudeen, who is part of Kerala state's Covid task force, says the crisis is unprecedented and doctors can't do much if oxygen supply is not guaranteed.

"You need high-pressure liquid oxygen for the smooth functioning of ventilators and bi-pap machines. When the pressure drops, the machines fail to deliver adequate oxygen into the lungs, and the consequences can be fatal," he says.

He adds that oxygen is one of the major treatments to stabilise the patient, allowing doctors time to assess them and plan a future course of treatment.

Dr Fathahudeen says urgent measures are needed as patients are dying without getting the treatment they require.

"The Indian army is one of the finest in the world to build makeshift hospitals and ICU beds within a short span of time. They should be roped in," he adds.

The situation is not very different in other cities, including Pune, Nashik, Lucknow, Bhopal, Indore and Allahabad, as the second Covid wave devastates the country.

India reported 349,000 cases on Friday - a record daily spike. It reported 2,767 deaths. But experts say the actual numbers are likely to be much higher.

Getting tested has become very difficult in many cities as labs are overrun. As I earlier reported, many people are dying at home because they are not getting hospital beds or they are not being able to get tested for Covid. So, they don't find a place as a Covid patient in the database managed by different states.

Meanwhile, frantic calls continue - each one more heartbreaking than the last.

Another record. We are now heading towards 400,000 cases.
 
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main to wohi answer doon ga jo apni begum ko deta hoon . :partay:

samajh gaya :p:

chalo jawab mai de deta hu

there is corona pandemic surging day by day
157 people died of corona in last 24 hours
you don't have any vaccine , depend on others ,
only 0.2 percent population has been vaccinated till now , people are not coming forward because of nano chip bill gates :partay:
india supplies you life saving drugs , polio and rabies vaccine , khuda chahega to corona ki vaccine bhi denge .
dhanyavad
 
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you are asking questions like my wife did when she went mad on me . :lol: :P


After talking to Indians in this forum and engaging with them, I am giving a second thought about it.


 
what about pakistan ?
Pakistan is well doing great its partly sunny day here in islamabd with temp 29

pandemic is finished in pakistan ?
no still kicking the arse since 1 year

how many vaccinated ?
1.3millions were vaccinates at 9 april . since then no update

how many died today ?
118 sadly

by which time you will vaccinate your whole population ?
as per GOP by end of 2022 . last week they received more 3million doses from china /Russia . pakistan have signed contract of 45million doses so far with multiple sources .

by which time you will produce your vaccine ?
DUHS is working on single dose vaccine .google it you will find many updates .

remember you are still getting life saving drugs, polio, rabies vaccine from india . you don't make them.

nah i did not remeber india ever save us . all i know pakistan buy with hard cash. Pakistan has so far imported around $67.26 million worth of drug last year its tiny part of our imports . major source for Pakistani drugs are local . The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Industry meets around 90% of the country's demand of finished dosage .

now come to exports pakistan exports some 217mn$ in 2019 paramedical items with 4% growth yearly .
 
Do not make assumptions because of your interactions with Indians in PDF, defence forum people have polarising views.


Is not include only pdf members, I mostly spent time on twitter and some on YouTube, my opinion set after reading the thousands of thousands abusive, derogatory and ill wish thinking comments by our neighbours.
But yes at the end, Allah Reham karey inn per aur inn key haal per
 
Although It makes me happy that India as a state is crumbling I wont go so far to be happy about the horrifying situation Indian people find themself in today. May God help the people of India.
Guess who voted BJP in with a landslide victory when their election campaign revolved around attacking Pakistan and occupying Kashmir...
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I feel bad for innocent people dying on the streets, but India is the world's largest democracy. The government reflects the attitude of the people.
 
You are talking with Pakistani Muslims. Never forget these people for who they actually are. These people organized and celebrated the Mumbai massacre and many are celebrating now.
I mostly see indifference. However I do remember Indians telling Pakistanis that terrorist attacks in Pakistan were karma. Indians were even saying that the 97 people killed in PIA plane crash last year were all terrorists.
 
Seen a video from Maharashtra where the local Police is asking the Muslim clerics to pray for the wellbeing.

And to end the coronavirus in India.
 
These basturds will never learn, always talk big and does nothing, buggers who cant even save their own citizens dying like rats and they are claiming to save the world, what a piece of shit whole that country is aka endia.
 
2nd wave is
Because of chutiya Public not just politicians. People here are spreading so much misinformation on covid. It's causing Chaos.
 
These basturds will never learn, always talk big and does nothing, buggers who cant even save their own citizens dying like rats and they are claiming to save the world, what a piece of shit whole that country is aka endia.

those idiots who can not produce single dose of vaccine are giving lecture here , see how and why your citizens are dying of corona , because you don't have vaccine .
 
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