{"id":20921,"date":"2021-05-07T03:50:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=20921"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:27:41","slug":"whats-next-in-a-crisis-thats-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/whats-next-in-a-crisis-thats-far-from-over","title":{"rendered":"Prochaines \u00e9tapes d'une crise qui est loin d'\u00eatre termin\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first week of May has brought no relief to India, where surging cases of COVID-19 continue to dismantle the healthcare system. Since the start of the new month, nearly 400,000 people are getting sick with the virus every single day<\/strong>. Experts fear the devastating caseload is still nowhere near its peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weston Davis is the country director for ADRA in India and in a recent Facebook Live interview he described the harrowing situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch ADRA team in India share crisis update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany, many people know someone who has perished,\u201d he said, reflecting on the common belief that the official COVID-19 death toll in India falls far short of the reality. \u201cSome experts say, \u2018whatever number you hear, multiply that times ten and you\u2019ll be getting close.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of May 5, the Ministry of Health and Welfare in India reported that 230,168 people have died of COVID-19. Nearly 4,000 of those deaths occurred on May 5 alone. Experts insist the number is much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOur healthcare system was not ready to cope with such a large caseload,\u201d said Trisha Mahajan, the communications manager for ADRA in India. \u201cThe cases had subsided a lot in February and people had thought that COVID in India was almost over. This second wave took people by surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahajan described the fear and chaos in India right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are dying from preventable deaths because they are not getting oxygen on time, or not getting hospital beds on time, or not getting basic medicines on time,\u201d she said. \u201cMy social medias are filled with people asking for leads on hospital beds or oxygen cylinders. People are just losing their lives outside of hospitals. Even crematoriums are cramped. There is no space. They are being turned into places to burn the dead\u2014even in the parking lots of these crematoriums, fires are being burned.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is very tragic what is happening,\u201d she added. \u201cWe are all very scared at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Though several of our frontline staff have gotten sick with\u2014and recovered from\u2014COVID-19, the ADRA team in India remains safe, even as they continue their tireless fight against COVID-19. Recently, ADRA\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force committed to the following in India:<\/p>\n\n\n\n