The rate of known coronavirus infections per capita is still less than the United States endured at its peak. Part of the reason for the huge numbers is India's size: a population of nearly 1.4 billion. On Friday, India's Health Ministry confirmed 386,453 infections – more than any country on any day since the pandemic began. The country has been breaking world records daily for new cases. Across India, there are shortages of testing kits, hospital beds, medical oxygen and antiviral drugs as a severe second wave of the pandemic crushes the health infrastructure. Tests are in short supply in India, where the Health Ministry confirmed 386,453 infections Friday - more than any country on any day since the pandemic began. "If you're able to get tested, results come after five days."īy that time, some of them are already gone – cremated on the banks of the nearby Ganges River.Ī health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a man to test for the coronavirus in Hyderabad. Nobody's getting tested! So the government's numbers for our district are totally wrong," he told NPR on a crackly phone line from his village. "There's a shortage of coronavirus tests. But only five or six of them were officially counted as COVID-19 deaths, Pandey said. Most died at home, gasping for breath, with fevers. So he's up to date on what's happening in town.Īnd what's happening these days, he said, is horrific.įifty people from his village, Ashapur, and a neighboring one, Tilamapur, have died in the past two weeks.
MUMBAI - Santosh Pandey's wife is the head of their village, population about 1,600, near the holy city of Varanasi in northern India. Scientists says the real death toll and number of infections are likely much higher than what the Indian government is reporting.
Victims of COVID-19 are cremated in funeral pyres this week in New Delhi.
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