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Deadly Second Wave Spreads From Cities To Small Towns: India Covid-19

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Deadly Second Wave Spreads From Cities To Small TownsIndia Covid-19

India’s deadly Covid-19 second wave has devastated big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, and Pune. Hospitals and crematoriums have run out of space, and funerals are taking place in car parks. But the pandemic has now firmly gripped many smaller cities, towns, and villages where the devastation is largely under-reported.

Rajesh Soni spent eight hours taking his father from one hospital to another in a tuk-tuk in Kota district in the northern state of Rajasthan on Tuesday. He couldn’t get an ambulance and the rickety vehicle was his only option.

At 5 pm, he decides to end his search for a hospital bed as his father’s condition was deteriorating. He then “left everything to fate” and came home.

Deadly Second Wave Spreads From Cities To Small Towns: India Covid-19. Getty Images

“I am giving him medicines at home, but I am not sure that he will survive. We have been left to die on the streets,” Rajesh said. He says several private hospitals even “conned” him and took money to do tests, only to tell him later to take his father away as there were no beds.

“I am not a wealthy person. I spent whatever I had to pay the tuk-tuk driver and to hospitals. Now I am going to borrow some money to get an oxygen cylinder at home.”

Such stories have become common in Delhi, the worst affected city in India, but similar accounts are now coming in from smaller cities and towns across the country.

*Courtesy* BBC

Felicity Gitonga
Felicity Gitonga is the founder of Africa Business News. abn, freelance writer, journalist, and author with a passion for telling stories.

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