A COVID-19 patient breathes with the help of an oxygen mask as he waits inside an auto rickshaw to be attended to and admitted in a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Indian authorities scrambled Saturday to get oxygen tanks to hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid the world’s worst coronavirus surge, as the government came under increasing criticism for what doctors said was its negligence in the face of a foreseeable public health disaster. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients line up waiting for their turn to be attended to at a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





A patient receives oxygen outside a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. India’s medical oxygen shortage has become so dire that this gurdwara began offering free breathing sessions with shared tanks to COVID-19 patients waiting for a hospital bed. They arrive in their cars, on foot or in three-wheeled taxis, desperate for a mask and tube attached to the precious oxygen tanks outside the gurdwara in a neighborhood outside New Delhi. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A COVID-19 patient sits inside a car and breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A patient receives oxygen inside a car provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Relatives carry the body of a man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his funeral at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 23, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A baby lies beside a woman who is preparing vermicelli in a factory to be used in a traditional sweet dish for Ramadan in Allahabad, India on April 21, 2021. (Photo by Prabhat Kumar Verma/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Men dressed as Hindu deities from the epic Ramayan wear face masks before going on a public awareness campaign against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, on the occasion of the Hindu festival “Ram Navami”, in Bangalore on April 21, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





Relatives and family members carry the dead body of a Covid-19 victim for a cremation at Nigambodh Ghat Crematorium, on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi in the early hour of April 22, 2021. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





A mass cremation of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A man prepares a funeral pyre to cremate the body of a person, who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A Hindu priests rotate traditional oil lamps in circular movements as they perform an evening ritual “Aarati” at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna on Ramnavami in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Ramnavami commemorates the birth of Hindu God lord Rama who is remembered for his prosperous and righteous reign, which has become synonymous with a period of peace and prosperity. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A family member prays as he perform the last rites of a relative who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Friday, April 23, 2021. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A woman cries after her husband died of a leakage in the oxygen plant of a hospital in Nashik, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A local administrator in western India says 22 patients have died in a hospital when their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leakage in a supply tank. The official says the oxygen supply has since been resumed to other patients. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A COVID-19 patient wearing oxygen mask waits inside a vehicle to be attended and admitted in a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Flames rise from cremation pyres of victims of a fire that broke out in Vijay Vallabh COVID-19 hospital, at Virar, near Mumbai, India, Friday, April 23, 2021. A fire killed 13 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in western India early Friday as an extreme surge in coronavirus infections leaves the nation short of medical care and oxygen. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A man waits to refill a medical oxygen cylinder at a charging station on the outskirts of Prayagraj, India, Friday, April 23, 2021. India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi on Friday begged on social media for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. India's underfunded health system is tattering as the world's worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation, which set another global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A man dressed as Spider-Man sanitizes a railing outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station during a lockdown imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, April 21, 2021. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters)





A security guard puts up a notice informing the non-availability of beds for patients in a private hospital amid Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Allahabad on April 22, 2021. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Folk artists perform durign a Trinamool Congress (TMC) party event ahead of the sixth phase of West Bengal's state legislative assembly elections in Kolkata on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)