India is now the coronavirus epicentre.
🦠 Tuesday marked the darkest day in India's Covid battle:
360,000+ new cases
3,293 deaths
The largest number recorded during the pandemic.
The death toll is above 200,000
🇮🇳 How did India get here?
🧵👇
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❌ More than two fifths of the world's Covid cases are now being reported from India.
Cases have increased five-fold since the start of April, with no sign of levelling off
❌ The spread of the virus has seen the city's services overrun, with crematoriums and hospitals unable to deal with the pressure
🛏️ Just 24 ICU beds out of 4,794 are available for Covid patients
🌬️ The situation has been made worse by short supply of oxygen
📈While official stats are staggering, there are fears this is a significant underestimation.
🗣️ Officials are facing accusations of downplaying stats.
"I can easily say that around 1,000 Covid cases are getting funerals every day" the manager of one crematorium in Delhi said
⬆️ Modelling by expert epidemiologists suggests the true death toll may be as much as 5x higher.
Such uncertainty makes comparing India's data to other countries difficult, not least because of its population of over 1.3bn
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📉Vaccines have quickly led to a reduction in cases, hospitalisations and deaths in some countries.
💉 India has provided just 10 doses for every 100 people.
❌ The vaccine effect will not have had a tangible impact yet
India's second wave of coronavirus has:
📌 Devastated the nation
📌 Collapsed the health system
and the death toll is thought to be significantly higher than official figures.
Watch @TelGlobalHealth's full analysis here 👇
❌With people dying on the streets and hospitals running out of oxygen, India’s situation is one of the worst the world has yet seen.
🌏 But why has India been hit now and might other countries follow?
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❌ Patients across India are paying extortionate black market prices for oxygen and essential medicines.
🆘 Despite emergency ventilators and oxygen concentrators arriving from the UK and other nations, there continues to be critical oxygen shortages
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