Hospitals in the country are overflowing and residents have scrambled to buy medical oxygen to treat family members at home.
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Death Toll Rises to 92 in Fire That Gutted Iraq Hospital Coronavirus Ward
The blaze, caused by an electrical short in a ventilator, was the second such fire in three months in a country where corruption and mismanagement have left basic government services barely functioning.
Pope Francis Leads Sunday Prayer a Week After Surgery
Francis made his first public appearance since the operation, greeting the faithful gathered in the courtyard of Rome’s Gemelli hospital, his voice appearing weak at times.
Virus Surges in Myanmar After Coup
With doctors and other health care workers already on strike to protest the coup, Myanmar’s health care system may buckle under the outbreak.
How India’s Covid-Hit Hospitals Ran Out of Oxygen
A cascading series of failures, from the central government on down, left hospitals across India without medical oxygen, killing hundreds. One tragic night in Delhi shows how it happened.
How India’s Covid-Hit Hospitals Ran Out of Oxygen
A cascading series of failures, from the central government on down, left hospitals across India without medical oxygen, killing hundreds. One tragic night in Delhi shows how it happened.
Brazil Passes 500,000 Covid Deaths, a Tragedy With No Sign of Letup
With 2.7 percent of the world’s population, Brazil has suffered 13 percent of the Covid-19 fatalities, and the pandemic there is not abating.
In the Wake of India’s Covid Crisis, a ‘Black Fungus’ Epidemic Follows
The deadly disease has sickened former coronavirus patients across the country. Doctors believe that hospitals desperate to keep Covid patients alive made choices that left them vulnerable.
What It’s Like to Be in India’s Covid-19 Crisis
Fear, grief and boredom pervade the lives of those contending with the country’s severe outbreak. Their solace: family, friends and their own efforts to help others.
How India’s Kerala Has Battled Coronavirus
Kerala uses tracking of patients and supplies, a network of health care workers and coronavirus “war rooms” to succeed where the national government has fallen short.