NEW DELHI – Hospitals in the middle of some hotspots in India’s vaccines are running out because infections have skyrocketed, causing them to be rushed.
Hospitals in Mumbai and elsewhere are facing growing lines of people wanting shots and having to turn them away. Some people go from hospital to hospital to get a vaccine. Some started with protests.
India has become the center of the global pandemic as the number of new cases per day has skyrocketed to more than 120,000 this week from less than 20,000 last month. This is more than any other country this week and higher than the first wave of infections that peaked in India in September.
The boom has increased demand for the vaccine. Some vaccination centers now have long queues and their doses run out before everyone gets their shots.
South Mumbai resident Darius Lam tried to take his elderly parents to two different hospitals on Thursday morning to be turned away. A third hospital had doses, and they could only get them because they could avoid a long line of people through their ages.