drone captures mass cremations in India by Covid-19

A wave of deaths from the coronavirus has cornered India, where they had to mass cremate the bodies due to the lack of coffins and graves to be able to bury the victims of Covid-19.

According to the AFP news agency, this country recorded the record of 2,767 deaths in one day and over 350,000 cases every 24 hours. The Asian giant, with more than 1,300 million inhabitants, is unable to stop the pandemic.

This tragedy caused a saturation of hospitals with patients, and oxygen to save lives was lacking. People who have made it into medical centers describe crowded hallways, with beds or stretchers occupied by two or three people.

People who lose loved ones turn to makeshift facilities that hold mass burials and cremations as crematoria are under pressure.

According to Reuters, the situation is such that bodies are cremated in parking lots.

“No one in Delhi would have witnessed such a scene. Children aged 5, 15 and 25 are cremated. The newlyweds are cremated. It’s hard to see, ”said Jitender Singh Shunty, director of a nonprofit medical service.

International assistance

A dozen countries, including the United States and several members of the European Union, have offered India to send medical supplies to help ease the country’s resource crisis to deal with a violent wave of coronavirus record.

International aid is being sent as an “urgent” response to the needs of the second most populous country in the world, which has seen infections and deaths increase dramatically in a matter of weeks, causing the collapse of their health care system.

Despite the large production capacity of the nation, known as the World Pharmacy, last week the healthcare sector began reporting its stocks running low, due to the large number of patients arriving each day. in the hospital.

The UK has said it will do “everything possible to alleviate the suffering” of India and send ventilators in the face of the severity of the crisis, after dozens of deaths from lack of medical oxygen in hospitals were known.

The European Union also announced the coordinated response of member states to send resources through the European Civil Protection Mechanism. France and Germany have already announced their offer of aid respectively.

Likewise, the United States has announced the “immediate” dispatch of medical resources and raw materials to manufacture vaccines to “urgently” deal with the serious clinical crisis.

Shipment of chemical components and active ingredients for drug manufacturing is critical for India, home to the world’s largest vaccine producer, the Serum Institute of India (SII), producer of the Anglo Lab’s anticovid formula. -Swedish AstraZeneca.

Last week, the Indian manufacturer publicly called on the US government to lift import restrictions on raw materials to increase production of vaccines, of which Serum is a global producer and India’s main supplier.

The investment arm of the Singaporean government, Temasek, also coordinated this weekend the shipment to India of emergency medical equipment, including assisted breathing apparatus.

The Indian Air Force announced on Saturday that it is sending cargo ships to Singapore to move the new containers that will increase the country’s storage capacity.

Other countries

Esta crisis sanitaria, que dejó imágenes de hospitalales saturados, escasez de algunos medicamentos para tratas el virus, y masivas cremaciones dado el aumento de muertes, llevó también a China, Pakistán, Emiratos Árabes, y Australia, entre otros países, a ofrecer India.

“In solidarity with the Indian people following the current wave of covid-19, Pakistan has offered to provide humanitarian aid to India including ventilators, BiPAP devices (to help breathing) , digital x-ray machines, protective equipment and related items, ”the Pakistani government, frequently confronted with India, said in a statement.

India has passed the 17 million cases of Covid-19 and more than 195,000 dead, amid a wave that the Indian government says is “shaking the country.”

Sources: EFE, AFP and Reuters