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Hospitals in India plead for oxygen as country sets COVID-19 record
The world’s worst coronavirus surge is wearing out the nation, which on Friday set a global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730.
By NEHA MEHROTRA and ASHOK SHARMAAssociated Press
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Health workers carry a patient Friday after a fire in Vijay Vallabh hospital at Virar, near Mumbai, India. The fire killed 13 COVID-19 patients in the hospital as an extreme surge in coronavirus infections leaves the nation short of medical care and oxygen.
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NEW DELHI India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state.
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