Trainee Indian doctors pulled from exams to fight world’s biggest Covid surge

Hospitals have filled to capacity, supplies of medical oxygen have run short, and morgues and crematoriums have been overloaded with corpses. Patients are dying on hospital beds, in ambulances and in carparks outside.

India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections , as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.