Covid-19 Crisis Overwhelms India

NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 09: A man sits atop a huge pile of firewood to be used in funeral pyres for the last rites of the patients who died of the Covid-19 coronavirus and other fatalities outside a crematorium on May 09, 2021 in New Delhi, India. India broke a fresh record on Thursday with over 412,000 new cases of Covid-19 as the total number of those infected according to Health Ministry data neared 20 million. The real figure could be up to ten times higher, many health experts say, due to a lack of widespread testing or reporting, and only patients who succumbed in hospitals being counted. Hospitals have begun turning away people suffering from Covid-19, having run out of space for the crushing number of people seeking help. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images)