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Covid 2.0 lifts lid off India’s health infrastructure system

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NEW DELHI : The resurgence of coronavirus cases has caught India’s creaking healthcare system flat-footed again, with reports of shortages in critical-care beds, oxygen, delays in testing and hospitals turning away critically ill patients pouring in from across the country.With daily infections nearing 200,000—many experts say the actual number is higher—hospitals in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad are stretched to their limits.More regions in India are announcing lockdown-like curbs to reduce the stress on hospitals and healthcare workers, raising anxiety about job losses and another slowdown in economic activity just as the nation was emerging from the deepest recession since Independence.Health experts had for long warned.

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