Updated: Apr 24 2021, 15:35 ET
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INDIA has vowed to "hang" anyone who delays the delivery of oxygen supplies as the country buckles under a devastating second wave of coronavirus.
A high court in New Delhi today warned it would use the death penalty after brazen local officials intercepted and diverted oxygen tanks to desperate hospitals in their areas.
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Relatives transport a Covid patient on a stretcher to a hospital in New DelhiCredit: AFP
The court, which was hearing submissions by a group of hospitals over the oxygen shortages, described the devastating rise in infections as a "tsunami".
Covid patients are "dying on the pavement" outside hospitals - and doctors fear infections will soon hit 500,000 per day.