India Covid: record deaths registered

Hospitals in India are being ravaged by a second wave of Covid-19 with deaths setting new records for a third day running. The government has now pulled in the military to transport oxygen by air.

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(Photo: A health worker wearing personal protective equipment carries a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi, India. Credit: Reuters/Abidi)