[The Guardian] Oxygen runs low during India’s Covid crisis – photo essay

Oxygen runs low during India’s Covid crisis – photo essay

As a global record for new Covid cases is set in India, hospitals are running out of vital supplies

• ‘The system has collapsed’: India’s descent into Covid hell

Hospitals in parts of India are using social media to beg for help finding oxygen and key equipment as the country’s second Covid-19 wave continues to build, breaking global records for the most infections detected in a single day.

Only two months ago, some in the vast country of more than 1.3billion people were celebrating what they thought was the end of Covid-19 after six successive months of falling caseloads. Most of the remaining restrictions on social life were removed and people again flocked to markets, cricket stadiums and religious festivals.

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