On April 22, India recorded more than 314 thousand cases per day. This is the highest number in the history of the pandemic. The country’s hospitals are completely full, doctors can not cope with the endless flow of patients. It is also reported that oxygen does not have time to be delivered to the artificial ventilation devices. The death rate of the population is significantly increasing. Crematoriums across the country do not have time to burn the victims of coronavirus infection.
Such a sharp jump in morbidity is associated with a number of reasons. In early 2021, the daily rate of COVID-19 cases in India began to decline. Official figures every day showed less than 10 thousand positive results, which was the reason for the neglect of sanitary standards. Residents of India stopped wearing masks and gloves, and began to go out on the streets and in public places more often. There was no question of any social distance in this case.
The Indian authorities, in turn, decided to ease the restrictions, allowing citizens to hold and attend mass events.
Due to the fact that hospitals have an acute shortage of oxygen for the operation of the ventilator, trains and trucks with oxygen are constantly sent to one of the largest states of India, Maharashtra (Mumbai), since 25 patients died in one evening on April 23 in the largest hospital in Delhi.
“The government has allocated us 3.5 metric tons of oxygen. The delivery was supposed to arrive at us by 17: 00, but it was delivered around midnight. By that time, 25 patients had died,” said D. K. Baluja, Chief Medical Officer of Jaipur Golden Hospital.
Maharashtra is currently the leader in the number of cases of coronavirus. According to the latest data, doctors provide medical care to more than 117 thousand patients. Every day, the incidence rate increases by about 60 thousand cases. Immediately after Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh leads with 36.6 thousand.
However, mass vaccination is being carried out in India — more than 2.8 million people have been vaccinated in the country over the past few days. To date, the Ministry of Health of India has officially approved 3 vaccines: domestic “Covaxin” and “Covieshield”, as well as a drug of Russian development – “Sputnik b”. The Russian development is not yet used in India en masse, but its deliveries should begin in the near future.
