India’s Covid crisis laid bare as medics battle to save patients amid oxygen shortage – World News

The shocking reality of India’s Covid crisis has been laid bare as medics battle to save patients amid oxygen shortages.

Indian hospitals are on the brink of collapse with the country fighting a ‘double mutant’ coronavirus strain during a devastating second wave.

Furnaces have been melting due to overuse as bodies stack up amid a surging death toll which has risen by a record 2,000 in the past 24 hours, alongside 290,000 new cases.

It comes as the UK was told adding India to its red list restricting travel came weeks too late, with 215 cases of the new variant already detected within Britain, according to the latest figures.

The latest video pans to show Civil Hospital in Rajkot, in the state of Gujarat packed full of patients last week.

A female patient can be seen sitting upright surrounded by people, with what appears to be an oxygen mask around her face.

Nurses are shown tending to patients in another room, with many of them lying down and hooked up to machines.

Ambulances can be seen outside the building, where people are gathered – likely awaiting news of loved ones.

In the video, three masked medics can be seen trying to resuscitate a patient lying on a hospital bed with tubes attached to him.

A doctor even straddles the patient at one point – pressing firmly down on his chest in an attempt to revive him.

In the next bed along, a young man is in tears as he stands by the bedside of a loved one while another doctor comforts him.

The harrowing footage comes after news India has set a global record for new Covid cases amid the oxygen shortage.

The country reported 314,835 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, which is the highest one-day tally on record globally.

India also experienced its worst daily death toll in the same period – reporting 2,104 deaths.

The country’s total confirmed cases are now close to 16 million as a brutal second wave of the virus hits.