Public and charities come together to deliver ‘critical’ aid to India

Health workers stand on the back of ambulance as they transport patients at the Jumbo COVID-19 field hospital in Mumbai, India (Rafiq Maqbool/AP/PA)

Activists and charities have called for donations and “moral support”, as India battles with shortages of beds and oxygen and a spiralling coronavirus death toll.

Charities including the British Red Cross, ActionAid, Oxfam India and Save the Children are providing aid and medical equipment, while several Britons with family members in India have travelled there to assist them.