Yulitza Torres News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In Peru, people line up day and night for life-saving oxygen

In Peru, people line up day and night for life-saving oxygen 253 home, hundreds of Peruvians have taken to sleeping on the street, sometimes for days on end, in queues of people desperate for oxygen amid a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. In the night chill, they take cover in small tents, under blankets or sheets of cardboard outside Criogas, a small oxygen factory in the port city of El Callao near the capital Lima. Hundreds of man-sized oxygen cylinders line the street outside the factory, each bearing the name of the person who brought it. “Yesterday I stood in a long que...

COVID-19: Peruvians lining up day and night for oxygen LIFE-SAVING GAS: The mood among those waiting outside the Criogas factory was somber, yet there was little evidence of jostling as many a supportive hug was shared AFP, LIMA While loved ones are fighting for breath at home, hundreds of Peruvians have taken to sleeping on the street, sometimes for days on end, in lines of people desperate for oxygen amid a second wave of COVID-19. In the night chill, they take cover in small tents, under blankets or sheets of cardboard outside Criogas, a small ox...

The Citizen brings you breaking news, current affairs, celebrity and entertainment news, as well as sport news throughout the day. More news. Your way.

EU announces progress in vaccines push, but fresh virus protests