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Indian hospitals on brink of collapse from ‘double-mutant Covid’ as gravediggers burn dead & furnaces melt from overuse
Apr 20, 2021
HOSPITALS in India are on the verge of collapse as the country battles a ‘double mutant’ Covid strain.
Gravediggers have been burning piles of bodies with furnaces melting from round-the-clock use in the brutal second wave.
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India has been placed on the UK’s red list restricting travel amid fears prevalence of the variant could be up to 10 to 20 times higher and fears rapid tests may not be able to detect it.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday that 103 cases of the Indian variant had been found in the UK.
But MPs part of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus were told by scientists today that the figure is likely to be at least 10 times higher.
Officially, almost 180,000 Indians have died from coronavirus, 15,000 of them this month, although some believe the real number may be higher.
India recorded over 250,000 new infections and over 1,700 deaths in the past 24 hours alone.
As cases soar, tests are delayed and medical oxygen is scarce while hospitals are understaffed and overflowing.
Intensive care units are full with nearly all ventilators are in use and the dead are piling up at crematoriums and graveyards.
Horrifying images show row upon row of burning pyres and crematoriums unable to cope.
In the western state of Gujarat, many crematoriums in Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Ahmedabad are operating around the clock with three to four times more bodies than normal.
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