https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/24/indias-daily-coronavirus-cases-climb-to-new-world-record-hospitals-buckle.html

PUBLISHED SAT, APR 24 20217:02 AM EDT

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• India is in the grip of a rampaging second wave of the pandemic, hitting a rate of one COVID-19 death in just under every four minutes in Delhi as the capital’s underfunded health system buckles.
• The government has deployed military planes and trains to get oxygen from the far corners of the country to Delhi.
• Television showed an oxygen truck arriving at Delhi’s Batra hospital after it issued an SOS saying it had 90 minutes of oxygen left for its 260 patients.

Medical staff in PPE attending to a person in the temporary Covid-19 care centre attached to LNJP Hospital, at Shehnai Banquet Hall, on April 23, 2021 in New Delhi, India.Raj K Raj | Hindustan Times | Getty Images

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