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Newshour: 24/04/2021 12:06 GMT: India Covid: record deaths registered

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24/04/2021 12:06 GMT

24/04/2021 12:06 GMT: India Covid: record deaths registered

India Covid: record deaths registered

BBC World Service - Newshour, India Covid: record deaths registered

Indian hospitals send SOS as record deaths registered

Indian hospitals send SOS as record amount of deaths amidst oxygen shortage.

Hospitals in India are being ravaged by a second wave of Covid-19 with deaths setting new records for a third day running. The government has now pulled in the military to transport oxygen by air. 

Also on the programme: the doctors leaving Lebanon for good due to a struggling economy; and British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber pays tribute to songwriter Jim Steinman.

(Photo: A health worker wearing personal protective equipment carries a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi, India. Credit: Reuters/Abidi)

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