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Situation in India beyond heartbreaking, says WHO chief on Covid crisis
Geneva/IBNS: World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said the Covid situation in India is beyond heartbreaking as the Asian country continued to report over 3 lakh daily cases for the last five days and a massive spike in death counts too.
"The situation in India is beyond heartbreaking," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
His comments come on a day when India recorded 3,53,991 fresh covid cases and 2812 deaths in a span of 24 hours along with the country's battle with the pandemic amid overwhelmed hospitals and mass cremations across states.
"WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies," Tedros said.
Amid a severe oxygen crisis in India, the WHO chief said they are sending "thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and laboratory supplies."
The UN agency had transferred more than 2,600 of its experts from various programmes, including polio and tuberculosis, to work with Indian health authorities to help respond to the pandemic, the WHO chief informed.
The country of 1.3 billion people has become the latest hotspot of the pandemic with an overall caseload of 1,73,13,163 and a fatality toll of 1,95,123.
Meanwhile, the cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in India has crossed 14.19 Cr on Monday.
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