‘The pandemic is now truly beyond control’: Covid-19 slays rural India
Officials have outlined the scale of the carnage — from entire families wiped out to bloated bodies floating down the Ganges River
18 May 2021 - 10:01
After devastating India’s biggest cities, the latest Covid-19 wave is now ravaging rural areas across the world’s second-most populous country. And most villages have no way to fight the virus.
In Basi, about 1.5 hours from the capital New Delhi, about three-quarters of the village’s 5,400 people are sick and more than 30 have died in the past three weeks. It has no healthcare facilities, no doctors and no oxygen canisters. And unlike India’s social-media literate urban population, residents can’t appeal on Twitter to an army of strangers willing to help. ..
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