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Thursday, 05/06/2021 11:08:24 AM

Thursday, May 06, 2021 11:08:24 AM

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India breaks daily COVID-19 record with over 412,000 confirmed cases
May 6, 2021

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Most infirmaries in India don’t have independent plants that generate oxygen directly for patients — doctors typically rely on liquid oxygen stored in cylinders and transported in tankers, but supplies in hard-hit locales are running critically short.


A volunteer prepares beds for coronavirus patients at a newly built hall being used to care for the sick, in Mumbai, India.

Harsh Vadhan, the country’s health minister, claimed there is enough oxygen supply but there are difficulties getting it to the places that need it most. Most oxygen is produced in eastern sections of the country, but demand is rising in northern and western parts.


Health workers in PPE tend to people admitted at the COVID-19 care center attached to LNJP Hospital, in New Delhi.

On Tuesday, India constructed a sea bridge from Bahrain and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf to ferry oxygen tankers across, officials said.


People receive vaccines at a drive-in vaccination center in Mumbai.

Experts told the Washington Post that India could soon be seeing 500,000 new cases a day before the surge begins to taper off, and K. Vijay Raghvan, a primary scientific adviser to India’s government, said the current phase of the crisis is a “very critical time for the country.”


India reported 3,980 new coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours.

Wealthy Western nations such as the US, Britain and Germany are rushing rapid tests, oxygen and therapeutics to the country, as well as the materials needed to boost production of vaccines, which will enable the manufacturing of 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca shot.


A woman receives the Covishield vaccine at Dawoodi Bohra Saifee Ambulance vaccination center in Mumbai, India, on May 6, 2021.

The Indian government dismissed reports that it waited seven days to come up with a plan to distribute foreign medical supplies as “totally misleading” and said a streamlined mechanism for allocation has been put in place.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/india-breaks-daily-covid-record-with-412000-confirmed-cases/


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