The government says they’ve taken over distribution, but there’s absolutely none available,” says Desai, who runs a PR firm. India set a new record with 379,257 new Covid cases in the 24 hours to Thursday morning, according to the health ministry. The whole family developed Covid symptoms and her father required oxygen but they couldn’t find any. Lots of people are struggling with the economic side of Covid, so don’t even realise they’re not well. According to Pandey, close family friends of theirs were tested at the same lab and also got negative results.

Source: The Guardian April 29, 2021 07:18 UTC