A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a Covid-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad on April 26. Reuters
Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi on April 24. AP
Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the Covid-19 death toll towards 200,000.
A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi early on Tuesday,
Reuters partner
ANI reported.
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A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi.
France is also sending oxygen generators that can provide year-long oxygen for 250 beds.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all citizens to get vaccinated and exercise caution amid the storm of infections.
New Delhi: Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday (April 27) as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the COVID-19 death toll towards 200,000.
A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi early on Tuesday (April 27).
Published Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:21AM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:26AM EDT NEW DELHI, April 27 (Reuters) Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters partner ANI, while France is sending oxygen generators able to provide 250 patients with a year s worth of the gas, its embassy said. The first Oxygen Express train pulled into the capital, New Delhi, laden with about 70 tonnes of oxygen from an eastern state, but the crisis has not abated in the city of 20 million at the epicenter of the latest wave of infections.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 15:32 GMT+7
A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ahmedabad, India, April 26, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the COVID-19 death toll towards 200,000.
A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi early on Tuesday,
Reuters partner
ANI reported.
France is also sending oxygen generators that can provide year-long oxygen for 250 beds, the embassy said.
As coronavirus cases near 200,000, medial supplies begin reaching India
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Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, April 26, 2021. Reuters/File
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NEW DELHI: As hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients and a surge in infections pushed the death toll to 200,000, vital medical supplies have begun reaching India from different countries on Tuesday.