Covid-19: Delhi Court Rebukes Indian Government Over Oxygen Crisis
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In voting shadowed by a catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases, the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost a key state election. International aid has begun flowing into the country.
Oxygen cylinders outside a shop in South Delhi. A court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
A severe shortage of medical oxygen in New Delhi, the center of power in India, has left people gasping for their final breaths in their hospital beds, a sign of government futility in its fight against a crushing Covid wave.
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