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Coronavirus second wave is set to kill 5,700 people a DAY in India: Swamped hospitals turn away patients away while victims suffocate to death on wards amid oxygen shortage - and anyone who delays supplies is threatened with the DEATH penalty
Leading virologist Shahid Jameel today warned that India has still yet to hit the peak of its ferocious second wave, with studies suggesting it may record 500,000 cases per day in the first week of May. India's current fatality rate per 100,000 cases is 1.14 per cent, meaning if the nation reaches this anticipated peak there is the potential for 5,700 deaths per day.
Desperate hospitals across the country are buckling under the strain of this second wave, with many quickly running out of oxygen and being forced to turn stricken patients away due to overcrowding. Harrowing images from a makeshift crematorium in New Delhi today illustrated the extent of the pandemic in India, with Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford describing the situation as the 'tip of an iceberg' to a much larger crisis.
The crematorium was set up outside a hospital in the capital by desperate people who 'cannot cope' with the number of dead - and were forced to say goodbye to their loved ones at an ad hoc funeral pyre site. It comes as the High Court in New Delhi, which is home to some 30million people, today met to impose a strict ruling that if anyone is found to be restricting oxygen supplies to hospitals, they 'will be hanged'.
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Leading virologist Shahid Jameel today warned that India has still yet to hit the peak of its ferocious second wave, with studies suggesting it may record 500,000 cases per day in the first week of May. India's current fatality rate per 100,000 cases is 1.14 per cent, meaning if the nation reaches this anticipated peak there is the potential for 5,700 deaths per day.
Desperate hospitals across the country are buckling under the strain of this second wave, with many quickly running out of oxygen and being forced to turn stricken patients away due to overcrowding. Harrowing images from a makeshift crematorium in New Delhi today illustrated the extent of the pandemic in India, with Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford describing the situation as the 'tip of an iceberg' to a much larger crisis.
The crematorium was set up outside a hospital in the capital by desperate people who 'cannot cope' with the number of dead - and were forced to say goodbye to their loved ones at an ad hoc funeral pyre site. It comes as the High Court in New Delhi, which is home to some 30million people, today met to impose a strict ruling that if anyone is found to be restricting oxygen supplies to hospitals, they 'will be hanged'.
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