A patient, wearing an oxygen mask, sits outside Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, one of India's largest facilities for COVID-19 patients only, in New Delhi, India, Apr 22, 2021. NEW DELHI: Sirens wailing, a police convoy escorting a tanker carrying oxygen reached a hospital in India's capital just in time, to the huge relief of doctors and relatives of COVID-19 patients counting on the supply to stave off death.and 2,263 deaths, as the pandemic spiralled out of control.
At the hospital's oxygen supplier, Inox in Uttar Pradesh state about an hour from the capital, a line of a dozen trucks from cities across north India waited to fill up. An Uttar Pradesh police officer said they had been given orders to escort trucks to waiting hospitals. "Even if we build another five plants here we won't be able to," said the supervisor, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation.READ: 'Losing hope': India's COVID-19 meltdown exposes new front in digital divide
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