Delhi residents worry about toxic mix of pollution, COVID-19

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Families in Delhi with pre-existing health conditions such as asthma are stocking up on oxygen cylinders and pulse oximeters, fearing that the ...

Vehicles queue at a traffic light on a hazy morning in New Delhi, India, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree FadnavisNEW DELHI: Families in Delhi with pre-existing health conditions such as asthma are stocking up on oxygen cylinders and pulse oximeters, fearing that the city's worsening air quality will make them more vulnerable to the coronavirus.

Rupesh Gupta, 45, who has recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, said he was an asthmatic and having difficulty breathing the city's dirty air. "There is paranoia that you never know from what source we might get infection again in our home," his wife, Neelam Gupta, told Reuters at their residence in a congested west Delhi suburb.The family has bought a 15kg oxygen cylinder for emergency use and a portable pulse oximeter to measure oxygen levels in the blood each day.

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