Bangladesh's virus hotspot gasps for air as tough lockdown bites

Bangladesh's virus hotspot gasps for air as tough lockdown bites
AFP
9 hrs ago
AFP
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Bangladesh has ordered a strict week-long nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19, but Khulna's hospitals cannot cope
Empty oxygen cylinders are piling up almost as fast as bodies in the city of Khulna, which has become Bangladesh's coronavirus hotspot in a dire new surge.
The government has ordered a strict week-long nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19, but Khulna's hospitals cannot cope.
Neither can relatives of the dead.
Mohammad Siddik leaned against empty cylinders under a hospital emergency porch, tearfully telling relatives in phone calls that his 50-year-old brother had died.

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