Relatives and staff carry a dead body of a Covid-19 victim at Nigambodh Ghat Crematorium, on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi
NEW DELHI – Hospitals in India launched desperate appeals for oxygen on Friday as the nation’s Covid crisis plummeted to horrifying new depths, while Japan readied to declare a state of emergency for Tokyo just three months before it hosts the Olympics.
Covid-19 surges are placing a major strain on healthcare systems across the world, with no end in sight to a pandemic that has killed more than three million people.
The wave in India has been blamed on a new “double mutant” virus variant and the government’s allowing huge public gatherings that have turned out to be super-spreader events.
The country on Friday reported more than 330,000 new infections and 2,000 deaths in a…
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