A woman takes care of her husband who is suffering from coronavirus as he waits to get admitted outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital. Photo: ReutersStraining against his weight, Shayam Narayan's brothers haul him from a rickshaw onto a hospital trolley in India's capital New Delhi. "Due to an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases in Delhi, all the hospitals are over-burdened," a Delhi government spokesman said. "In GTB Hospital, the patients are arriving via ambulances despite unavailability of beds. Currently, an online dashboard indicates just 22 ICU beds are available in Delhi out of more than 4,500.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 24, 2021 01:18 UTC