India has called in security forces to bolster its fight against Covid-19, deploying soldiers and building field hospitals as the country’s health system threatens to collapse under a deluge of infections.
In the capital New Delhi, one of the hardest-hit cities, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police reopened an emergency treatment facility built during the first wave of coronavirus last year.
The armed forces said they would add more sites, while recently retired military medics will be recalled to treat sick patients, according to General Bipin Rawat, chief of India’s defence staff.
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