'Everyone I Know Has Lost Someone': An Update From India

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🗓️ 7 May 2021

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The numbers are staggering. India has been reporting more than 300,000 COVID-19 cases each day for the past two weeks, and recently topped more than 400,000 cases in a single day, a global record. Many more cases are likely unreported. NPR International Correspondent Lauren Frayer shares the latest from India.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:05.8	The surge of coronavirus cases in India is staggering in both its speed and size.
0:12.8	At the beginning of April, the country began reporting 100,000 plus new cases a day.
0:18.2	The COVID crisis in India is relentless and appears to be only worsening.
0:24.1	Then 200,000, 300,000.
0:26.8	So that by the end of last month.
0:29.0	The countries become the first in the world to record more than 400,000 coronavirus
0:34.1	infections.
0:35.1	That's in just one day.
0:37.1	The numbers are devastating the country's health system.
0:40.5	Overwhelmed hospitals are in dire need of oxygen concentrators, COVID tests and masks.
0:47.5	The country's total deaths from COVID-19 is now over 200,000.
0:52.4	Behind only Brazil and the US.
0:55.0	Although as NPR has reported, that number is absolutely an undercount.
0:59.6	In some areas, grade diggers are working literally around the clock to keep up with the staggering
1:04.8	loss of human life.
1:06.6	So for today's show, we talk to Lauren Freyr, NPR's international correspondent based
1:11.3	in Mumbai.
1:12.6	About the state of the COVID crisis there, how vaccinations are going, and what might be
1:17.2	behind the country's surge.
1:19.4	I'm Maddie Safaya, and this is Shortwave, the Daily Science Podcast from NPR.
1:35.6	I've got Lauren Freyr, international correspondent based in Mumbai, India with me.
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