'Rely on God': A prescription for India's poor in pandemic

Shares With scant supplies and underpaid staff, one of India's poorest states is scrambling to prevent a "blast" in coronavirus cases that medics say could cripple its precarious health system. The pandemic has already overwhelmed the medical network in the eastern state of Bihar, which has recorded more than 62,000 infections and nearly 350 deaths. But locals fear the worst is yet to come. Fuelling their anxiety - a slew of media reports and images of people struggling to access healthcare, including coronavirus patients languishing on oxygen support in hospital corridors. The list of patient complaints - worse outside the capital city of Patna - is long: too few beds, faulty...