Second wave of COVID-19 in India: Has another daily record of cases and suffers from oxygen deficiency

India surpassed 17 million coronavirus infections on Monday since the start of the pandemic, the product of a second wave of cases which adds a record number of infections and deaths for the fifth day in a row, in a critical situation due to the lack of hospital oxygen.

It was only in the past 24 hours that the Asian nation added 352,991 new infections and 2,812 deaths, the highest number recorded to date according to India’s health ministry.

This brings the cumulative total to 17.3 million infections and 195,123 deaths since the start of the pandemic, which is living its most critical moment in this nation of 1.35 billion people.

India continues to be the country with the worst infection data in the world, accounting for more than a third of the global total of infections confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday, 830,806 new covid infections. 19.

The deep deterioration of the country, which left behind a first wave of cases last February, when the figures were below 9,000 infections, progressed rapidly in a few weeks.

The increase in infections has led to a significant increase in the number of hospitalizations, with more than 16% of active cases out of the 17.3 million recorded to date, which has led to a critical situation in hospitals in the most vulnerable regions. important affected. and the scarcity of resources to treat the disease.

New Delhi, confined for a week, is one of the worst affected regions, with severe hospital limitations, especially medical oxygen, which kept vital supply levels to a minimum.

A city hospital reported the deaths of 20 patients on Saturday after the oxygen pressure dropped due to the lack of this gas.

About half a dozen hospitals in the city have reported the oxygen shortage on which hundreds of coronavirus patients depend, which require assisted breathing.

Only the Indian capital has reported some 25,000 daily cases, with a positive rate of over 35%, meaning that at least one in three people tested for coronavirus was infected.

With information from EFE

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