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India is recording about 300,000 new coronavirus cases per day – marking the highest daily case count of any country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Health services are being overwhelmed with the number of serious COVID presentations, with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen in critically short of supply. Just 10 per cent of the population has been vaccinated and new variants are spreading rapidly throughout the country, including one with a double mutation.
No national lockdown, however, has been implemented.
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Maharashtra and Gujarat in the west, Haryana in the north and Madhya Pradesh in central India are all facing an oxygen shortage. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, some hospitals have put "oxygen out of stock" boards outside, and in the state capital Lucknow hospitals have asked patients to move elsewhere. Smaller hospitals and nursing homes in Delhi are doing the same. Desperate relatives in several cities are lining up outside oxygen refilling centres. One plant in the southern city of Hyderabad hired bouncers to manage the crowd.
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For a week, India has been reliving this nightmare on repeat, waiting for the terrifying moment when there is no oxygen left at all.....bbc