Member of legislative assembly Shankar Singh Rawat stage a hunger strike demanding more oxygen cylinder, ventilator and other medical facilities for COVID patients in Government hospital, amid ongoing lockdown in Beawar, Rajasthan, India, May 16, 2021.
Rawat also demand for Vaccination to all above 18. An estimated 60 crore people in India are between 18 and 44 years. That’s 120 crore vaccine doses required. So far, 39.14 lakh doses have been administered to this cohort, across 32 states.
As coronavirus cases continued to surge in India, people are struggling to get hospital beds, ventilators, oxygen cylinders, injections and medicines with health infrastructure in the country almost stretched to its limit. (Credit: Sumit Saraswat)