Crematoriums and hospitals overwhelmed as coronavirus surges in India

A relative of a person who died of Covid-19 breaks down during a cremation in Jammu, India (AP)

Indian families are being left to ferry people sick with Covid-19 from hospital to hospital in search of treatment, as the country suffers a surge in infections with oxygen in short supply.

On social media and in television footage, desperate relatives can be seen pleading for oxygen outside hospitals or weeping in the street for loved ones who have died while waiting for treatment.