India has confirmed 16 million cases so far, second only to the United States, in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. India has recorded 2263 deaths in the past 24 hours for a total of 186,920.
The fire in a hospital intensive care unit killed 13 Covid-19 patients in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai early Friday.
A major private hospital chain in the capital, Max Hospital, tweeted that one of its facilities had one hour’s oxygen supply in its system and had been waiting for replenishment since early morning. Two days earlier, they had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court saying they were running out of oxygen, endangering the lives of 400 patients, of which 262 were being treated for Covid-19.