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Out of control coronavirus in India, citizens looking for drugs and oxygen on the black market

One of the heaviest reports in the world after the outbreak of the new coronavirus, India recorded in the last 24 hours, with over 2,000 deaths due to COVID-19 and almost 300,000 cases of SARS-CoV-2.

The United States alone, where 297,000 infections were reported in January, has the highest daily number of cases, according to AMPE.

According to the data cited by AMPE, from the federal Ministry of Health, in the previous 24 hours 2,023 patients with COVID-19, with the death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic reaching 182,553 dead at this stage. At the same time, a record number of laboratory-confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 were recorded, with 295,041 in 24 hours and a total of 15.6 million people infected.

In a televised address last Tuesday night, Federal Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his countrymen to make a greater effort to avoid new lockdown in the country, which is facing an increasingly serious health crisis as it is hit by a severe second wave. The selected active cases have exceeded 2.1 million.

In his first televised speech since the outbreak began, Mr Monti acknowledged that India, with a population of 1.3 billion, was “fighting once again”.

“The situation was under control a few weeks ago” before “The second wave came like a hurricane”, he said.

The last few weeks have been marked by mass rallies. Millions of people took part in events for the Hindu festival of Kub Mela, in political gatherings, in weddings, in sports events.

India, with its densely populated urban centers and overpopulation and poor health system, is now becoming the focus of a pandemic that has so far claimed the lives of over three million people worldwide.

According to the press, the production of medicines necessary for the treatment of COVID-19 has slowed down and is suspended in some factories, as well as the production of oxygen for medical use.

Relatives in despair are often forced to pay outrageous prices on the black market to provide drugs and oxygen. The WhatsApp platform is flooded with desperate cries for help.

The head of the local government in New Delhi, Arvid Cagejwal, who was isolated yesterday Tuesday after his wife was diagnosed as infected by the new coronavirusAccording to medical sources, the reserves are enough for 8 to 24 hours in the public hospital and only for 4 to 5 in some private ones. At the private Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, staff spoke of a “crazy night”: oxygen was depleted before supplies – two tank trucks – arrived at midnight. Now the supplies are enough for 12 to 14 hours. The lives of 200 patients depend on whether there will be oxygen.

At approximately 80 of the 142 hospitals in New Delhi, there are no longer beds for COVID-19 patients.

The US is now urging to avoid traveling to India, even by people who have been fully immunized, while Britain added the country to its “red list”. Hong Kong and New Zealand have suspended flights from India.

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