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Coronavirus: After denying deaths related to oxygen shortage, Centre asks states for data
The government is likely present the data in the Parliament before the Monsoon Session ends on August 13. Updated 13 hours ago Patients at a banquet hall temporarily converted into a Covid care centre in New Delhi on April 29. | Tauseef Mustafa/ AFP
The Centre has asked the states and Union territories to share data on deaths due to the shortage of oxygen during the devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, PTI reported on Tuesday. This comes days after the government faced severe criticism for denying that there were any deaths due to scarcity of the life-saving gas.
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Updated 2 hours ago A woman receives oxygen support at a Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on April 24 | Danish Siddiqui/ Reuters
States did not specifically report any deaths due to oxygen shortages during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, Bharati Pravin Pawar, minister of state, Health and Family Welfare, told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
The minister was responding to questions from Congress MP KC Venugopal on whether it was true that many Covid patients died on roads and hospitals due to shortages of oxygen and what steps the government has taken now to ensure that there would be no scarcity of the life-saving gas during the imminent third wave of infections.
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