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Few ICU beds and no oxygen but grief aplenty as India's COVID crisis soars

A Covid-19 patient on oxygen support waits outside LNJP Hospital for admission amid a shortage of beds

A Covid-19 patient on oxygen support waits outside LNJP Hospital for admission amid a shortage of beds Source: Getty

At least six hospitals in India's capital Delhi have run out of oxygen for COVID-19 patients, intensive care beds are near capacity and people are dying on trolleys outside hospitals.


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