India’s COVID woes worsen amid continued oxygen shortage
Al Jazeera
Authorities scrambled to supply medical oxygen to hospitals as India reported another 2,624 deaths, a new daily record.
Daily coronavirus death toll and infections in India, which is in the grip of a rampaging second wave of the pandemic, have passed new world records as the government battled to get oxygen supplies to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of new daily cases. Authorities scrambled anew on Saturday to supply medical oxygen to Indian hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid low supplies. India has hit a rate of one COVID-19 reported death every four minutes in New Delhi as the capital’s underfunded health system buckled.More Related News