How India ran out of oxygen

 

In April 2021, India began registering some of the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases in the world. When that happened, the demand for life-saving oxygen soared too. But India wasn’t able to keep up, adding avoidable deaths to a second wave of Covid-19 that has devastated the country.

This city in India is gasping for oxygen amid Covid-19 surge

CNN’s Sam Kiley reports on the worsening coronavirus surge in India as hospitals and crematoriums are overrun with a record number of cases.

 

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India’s COVID-19 emergency has reached critical levels.

Hospitals are out of beds and oxygen, while crematoriums do not have space for the dead.

Countries send aid to ease India's oxygen emergency - BBC News

 

International efforts are under way to help India as the country suffers critical oxygen shortages amid a devastating surge in Covid cases.

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