Patients receive treatment inside a Covid ward of a government-run hospital in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: ReutersIn the emergency room of a public hospital in northern India on Tuesday, a man was trying to revive his mother who had just died from Covid-19-like symptoms. On Tuesday, four people died in the Bijnor hospital ER within the space of an hour including Jagdish Singh (57) who had arrived just a few minutes before. His son Gajendra said he took him to hospital believing it would help raise his oxygen levels. At the hospital he said he ran around trying to get the oxygen going and then he lost his father.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 11, 2021 22:18 UTC