India's covid catastrophe

In the Indian capital of New Delhi, one person is reportedly dying of Covid-19 every four minutes. With a population of 1.3 billion, the surge in new infections has pushed the country’s health system to breaking point, with hospitals running out of critical supplies of oxygen and available beds to treat the seriously ill. In this episode Irish Times India correspondent Rahul Bedi describes the scenes in New Delhi and a country struggling to cope with a deadly second wave.

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India's covid catastrophe is an episode from The Irish Times World View Podcast by The Irish Times.

This episode is 00:25:36 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2021.

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