India overwhelmed by world’s worst Covid crisis international help is being pledged for India

 international help is being pledged for India


India as it battles a ferocious second 
a wave of coronavirus described by the prime 
minister narendra modi 
as a storm that has shaken the nation 
almost 
350 000 new infections were recorded 
in India in the latest 24-hour period 
and 
2767 people have died but 
experts say the actual numbers are 
likely to be much higher 
as the epidemic continues to grow 
hospitals are under intense pressure 
with shortages of beds 
and critical supplies including oxygen 
in the capital, Delhi covid is now
killing one person 
every four minutes our correspondent 
yoga email reports 
from there the capital is being ravaged 
at a frightening speed 
with every fire that burns India's 
self-belief 
is dying 
each funeral is a story of personal loss 
and national shame Chiranjeevi Malhotra 
has been helping to cremate the dead for 
decades 
now he barely ever stops working 
I've never seen such a terrifying the the 
situation I can't believe that we're in 
the capital of India 
people aren't getting oxygen and they're 
dying like animals 
he says we don't even have enough 
resources to cremate them 
outside is on the phone organizing 
oxygen 
for the hospital, she works in not 
nothing nothing is being done 
I don't know government is sleeping or 
what they are doing I am 
totally disheartened by the situation 
which I am seeing 
government is a literal failure a person 
cannot live 
here in Delhi, a person cannot even die 
peacefully in Delhi 
she's waiting to cremate her grandfather 
who died 
she says because there wasn't enough 
oxygen 
this small hospital in north Delhi is 
facing a daily struggle 
man, we have been spending sleepless 
nights since last one week 
I mean at times we feel like crying 
because we are not able to help the 
patient properly every day this is the
In the same scenario, we are left only with two 
hours of the year three hours of 
death and we are only getting assurance 
from the system 
and so families are being told to 
organize oxygen
at one medical shop, we found people with 
empty cylinders 
waiting to buy their own supply for 
loved ones 
who urgently need it 
for many here the government's promises 
of rushing in oxygen 
are coming too late families left asking 
why something so basic 
is unavailable every crematorium we've 
been to we've seen body after body being 
brought 
in it's hard for anyone to keep count 
but what workers 
have been telling me is that the real 
the scale of debts caused by covet 19 in 
India 
is a lot higher than what official 
numbers reflect 
and a lot of those who died right now 
have done so 
because
they couldn't get oxygen 
runs a group of volunteers here 
even young people are dying it's a very 
bad situation 
if it keeps getting worse we'll have to 
burn bodies by the side of the road 
he says 
there is a sense of abandonment in this 
country 
citizens are stepping up to do what a 
government should 
left to fight a vicious pandemic on 
their own 
yogurt BBC news Delhi 
well tonight the first shipment of British 
assistance to India is leaving the UK 
other countries are also pledging 
support our diplomatic correspondent 
Paul Adams 
is here in the studio what kinds of help 
is being sent for 
well Michelle this was really the 
the weekend when the world stood up and took 
notice of what's going on 
in India not least because a wildfire of 
infections like 
that in a country as large as India 1.4 
billion people 
is clearly not just a local danger it's 
a global danger 
and given those numbers anything any 
the reaction seems like a bit of a drop-in 
the bucket but 
those offers are coming in the united 
The united kingdom is sending 
495 oxygen concentrators 140 
ventilators and the foreign secretary 
Dominic Raab says there could be more 
the EU has activated what it calls its 
civil protection mechanism were a member 
countries pool their emergency 
supplies again with an emphasis on 
oxygen and medicines 
and we perhaps stung into action by 
moves on this side of the Atlantic has 
said that it will immediately supply  
the raw materials for vaccines and 
that'll involve reversing some export 
controls put in place 
back in February and supply protective 
gear 
and medical equipment and dr Anthony 
Fauci the president's 
the chief medical advisor has even suggested 
that the united states could supply 
India with some of its unused uh 
AstraZeneca vaccines that are a vaccine 
that has been approved 
has not yet been approved for use in the 
united states 
and it's got lots of it and it doesn't 
need it itself it's already supplied 
some of it to Mexico and Canada earlier 
in the year so it is coming under some 
pressure 
to do that for India as well paul Adams 
thank you very much

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