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Scenes of devastation continue in India, where the world’s highest ever daily spike in new coronavirus infections was recorded for a third consecutive day and hospitals fielding growing queues of desperate patients begged for the luxury of oxygen amid an all-out government push to provide it.
In the crisis-stricken capital of Delhi, some did not survive the wait for care, dying outside as a result of a lack of beds, while shortages in oxygen supplies probably claimed the lives of scores of those merely fortunate enough to have been admitted at all.
“Every hospital is running out [of oxygen]. We are running out,” Dr Sudhanshu Bankata, the executive director of Batra Hospital, told New Delhi Television.