Fire kills 13 COVID patients in India hospital: Live updates

Patients die after fire breaks out in a hospital near Mumbai, the second such incident in Maharashtra state in two days.

India is reporting record number of coronavirus cases – and deaths – amid a enormous shortage of medical oxygen and beds in its hospitals as an alarming second wave of the virus overwhelms its under-funded, fragile healthcare system. On Friday, the world’s second-most populous nation reported a single-day high of nearly 332,730 new cases and record 2,263 deaths, according to health ministry data. Hospitals across northern and western India, including capital New Delhi, say they are full and running out of oxygen supplies.