Covid-19: Delhi Court Rebukes Indian Government Over Oxygen Crisis
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Oxygen cylinders outside a shop in South Delhi. A court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
A severe shortage of medical oxygen in New Delhi, the center of power in India, has left people gasping for their final breaths in their hospital beds, a sign of government futility in its fight against a crushing Covid wave.
updated: May 03 2021, 12:52 ist
Public fury over Nepal’s growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travelers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies.
In response, Nepal announced Sunday that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.
As India’s crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to third countries.
Oxygen cylinders outside a shop in South Delhi. A court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
A severe shortage of medical oxygen in New Delhi, the center of power in India, has left people gasping for their final breaths in their hospital beds, a sign of government futility in its fight against a crushing Covid wave.
On Sunday, the New Delhi High Court said that it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen after hospitals in the capital successfully sought an injunction, The Associated Press reported.
KATHMANDU (NYTIMES) - Public fury over Nepal s growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travellers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies.
In response, Nepal announced on Sunday (May 2) that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.
As India s crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to third countries.
Bhadra Sharma, The New York Times
Published: 03 May 2021 01:17 PM BdST
Updated: 03 May 2021 01:17 PM BdST Shop owners wait for customers in Kathmandu on March 17, 2020. Nepal, desperate for tourist money, says it has taken steps to prevent a coronavirus outbreak, including social distancing at base camp and evacuation plans in case COVID-19 flares up. The New York Times
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In response, Nepal announced Sunday that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.