Social media posts mislead on reasons for India's lack of oxygen plants
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Social media posts mislead on reasons for India's lack of oxygen plants
(AFP) - As India’s coronavirus disaster deepened, Facebook and Twitter posts, including a tweet from a top Bollywood actress, accused the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Delhi states of failing to build sufficient oxygen plants despite being given funding in January 2021. But the claim lacks important context: although the oxygen plants mentioned in the posts were indeed not constructed in time, the funding had actually been allocated to the Central Medical Supply Store, part of India’s Ministry of Health; official documents show the state governments were not involved.