India's coronavirus caseload passes another milestone, testing the country's feeble healthcare system in tens of thousands of impoverished towns and villages.
Read more about coronavirus:Ravindra Khade Patil, a doctor who manages two private hospitals on the outskirts of Mumbai, spoke of the stress he faced trying to ensure he could supply his patients with oxygen.Dr Patil made frantic calls to the supplier and then to nearby hospitals and politicians, knowing that if the oxygen didn't arrive on time, it would be too late for some of his most critically ill patients.
In Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, the total requirement for oxygen cylinders stood at 5,000 cylinders, compared with 1,000 cylinders in normal times, a government official said.India's deaths are mostly concentrated in large cities, but smaller urban centres have also been hit hard.
But she said India could still try to restrict cases through a strategy of testing and isolating the affected places. India's test positivity rate was 8.3 per cent on September 13, according to University of Oxford figures.
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