India Falters Amid Growing Covid-19 Crisis

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A hospital information board shows non-availability of beds in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo As India faces the world’s fastest-growing number of Covid-19 cases, with 316,000 new confirmed infections on April 21, the highest single-day count in any country, and more than 2,100 deaths, the government’s response appears to have collapsed. A Lancet Commission report estimates deaths could reach 2,320 per day by the first week of June. There are healthcare shortages everywhere, of testing capacity, medicines, ambulance services, hospital beds, oxygen…

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