People carry the body of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease, from an ambulance for burial at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 16, 2021. — Reuters picNEW DELHI, Apr 17 — New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown today as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with more than 200,000 fresh daily cases and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds.
After a national lockdown a year ago led to hundreds of deaths and one of the worst slumps of any major economy, the Indian government is desperate to avoid a second stoppage. In the capital New Delhi, which has overtaken Mumbai as the worst-hit Indian city, restaurants, malls, gyms and spas were shut for the weekend.
The gathering in Haridwar has attracted as many as 25 million people since January, including some 4.6 million this week alone, with most people ignoring Covid-19 guidelines. In state capital Kolkata, railway employee Samaresh Tapna fell sick after attending one such gathering and was hospitalised.Hospitals are running short of oxygen and coronavirus medicines such as Remdesivir, prompting desperate people to pay exorbitant rates on the black market.
In a disturbing new trend, doctors told AFP they had seen an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients aged under 45, including children.
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