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Inside a Delhi hospital treating COVID-19 patients

June 02, 2020 08:29 IST

Delhi has been seeing a steady rise in coronavirus cases with official figures being pegged at over 19,000 on Monday.

Delhi remains the third worst-affected state by the coronavirus pandemic -- only Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have more confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Amid this situation, here are scenes from Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, where some 200 patients are being treated.

All photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment take care of a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease at the Intensive Care Unit of the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi.

In God we trust! A patient suffering from COVID-19, prays in the emergency ward of Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital.

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment takes care of a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease in the ICU. Medical staff have been working round the clock to deal with the huge amount of patients.

Sometimes a touch goes a really long way. A medical worker helps a COVID-19 patient inside the high-dependency unit ward at the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital.

Nurses and other medical staff have been working endlessly taking care of the COVID-19 patients at the hospital..

A medical worker sits in an area that was designated for mothers and child care but has now been changed to command centre for treatment of patients suffering from the coronavirus disease at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital.

A medical worker helps a coronavirus patient to blow a spirometer for increase lung capacity, at the Intensive Care Unit of hospital.

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment gesture as they arrive for their shift to work at the Intensive Care Unit.

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment waits to take swab tests for the coronavirus disease.

Mortuary workers load the body of a person, who died from the coronavirus disease, in an ambulance for cremation, at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital.
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