Pessimistic Indian doctors brace for tsunami of Covid-19 cases

Health department officials and doctors participate in a drill practice with a mock patient at SRN Hospital in Allahabad on March 18, 2020 - AFP

NEW DELHI (Bloomberg): It's the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed.

That outbreak ultimately infected more than 31,000 people and killed nearly 2,000, as many died waiting for treatment.