India's government has abandoned its citizens to face a deadly second wave alone Rukmini S
over 4 years in The guardian
Despite enforcing one of the strictest lockdowns last year, the authorities seem unable to cope with a renewed Covid surge
At 7.52pm on 16 April, Vinay Srivastava, a 65-year-old freelance journalist in Lucknow, the capital city of India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh, tweeted the state’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath that his oxygen levels had fallen to 52, but no hospital, doctor or lab was picking up the phone. His symptoms pointed to Covid-19, but he was unable to get a test, and his son went from hospital to hospital through the night, pleading in vain for a bed for his father.
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