KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

A Kansas City, Missouri, man has returned from India where COVID-19 transmission is out of control.

Seeing the news reports out of India in recent weeks paints a picture of a country in crisis. The deadly second wave of COVID-19 is spreading out of control.

Deepak Kapoor's family is in New Delhi. He said he made the difficult decision to travel there from Kansas City.

"In India, where the health care system has broken down, the news of somebody being infected is almost like a death sentence that they are going to die," Kapoor said.

Kapoor was vaccinated and tested before he went and stayed in his parents' flat his entire two-week stay. Still, he said that death was all around him. He said he heard the screams when the tenant upstairs stopped breathing.

"The ambulance came to take him to one hospital, there was no bed. Took him to the second hospital, there was no bed, and it took him to the third hospital. By the time he got there, he had passed away," Kapoor said.

He said that the situation there is ten times worse than what we've seen reported. Social distancing is impossible. There's a shortage of vaccine, an overwhelmed medical system and the dead are being cremated in the streets.

Now that he's back home, he said that he is dealing with the guilt of leaving his family behind. He said he calls them every day.

"I actually wanted to cry because, because I know they're going through such a hard time there," Kapoor said. "It was guilt. It was like, I'm leaving them back there in that situation, and I'm coming to a place, which is probably one of the best places to be right now in the world and leaving them in the place that's right now the worst place."

Kapoor said that he's grateful for all the U.S. is doing to help. He said believes it will take years for the country to recover from this. He said he hopes that by taking every precaution his family will survive.

NEW DELHI — COVID-19 infections in India have hit another grim daily record as demand for medical oxygen jumped sevenfold and the government denied reports that it was slow in distributing life-saving supplies from abroad.

The number of new confirmed cases breached 400,000 for the second time.

According to Johns Hopkins, India saw more than 412,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, a record in the country and a worldwide record for most cases recorded by a single country in a single day.

The country also recorded more than 400,000 cases on April 30.

The records are part of a disturbing increase of cases that have ticked up since mid-March. For the last 15 days, India has seen at least 300,000 new cases each day.

Deaths have also spiked during that time span. Inda saw a record 3,980 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, and has seen at least 3,000 people die of the virus each day since April 27.

The disturbing spike in cases has led to a shortage of medical supply in the country.

A news report says 11 COVID-19 patients died when pressure in an oxygen line dropped suddenly in a government medical college hospital in southern India, possibly because of a faulty valve.

Demand for hospital oxygen has surged since last month as India scrambles to set up large oxygen plants and transport oxygen.

A sea bridge has been set up to ferry oxygen tankers from Bahrain and Kuwait.