NEW COVID-19 INFECTIONS SURGE TO RECORD HIGH

NEW DELHI Patients are forced to share a single hospital bed in one of India's largest COVID-only facilities as infections surged to a new daily record on Thursday.

From reporting under 10,000 new daily cases earlier this year, daily infections crossed 200,000 on Thursday, according to official data, the highest anywhere in the world.

At Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, with more than 1,500 beds, a stream of ambulances ferried patients to the overflowing casualty ward on Thursday.

The youngest patient was a newborn baby.

“We are definitely over-burdened. We are already working at full capacity,” said medical director Suresh Kumar.