India, virus has ‘swallowed us like a monster’
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Desperate relatives of COVID-19 patients scramble to replenish their oxygen cylinders amid acute shortage of the gas. Reuters
With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning.
The stories are told on social media and in television footage, showing desperate relatives pleading for oxygen outside hospitals or weeping in the street for loved ones who died waiting for treatment.