COVID: Brazil faces oxygen shortage as new variant spreads
The northern Amazonas state is facing a scarcity of oxygen to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients amid a surge in cases. A new more contagious variant of the virus could already be the most dominant in the region.
Amazonas state is short of oxygen to help COVID-19 patients with breathing
Amazonas state in northern Brazil has admitted it is running short of oxygen to help those hospitalized with COVID-19 to breathe as the country struggles with a new variant of the coronavirus.
The city of Manaus has run out of oxygen and some health centers have become a type of suffocation chamber, Jessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told AFP.