India’s daily Covid death toll hits new record amid oxygen shortages

Authorities battle to get oxygen supplies to hospitals overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new cases

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India's daily coronavirus death toll passed a new record Saturday as the government battled to get oxygen supplies to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of new daily cases.

Queues of Covid-19 patients and their fearful relatives are building up outside hospitals in major cities across India, the new world pandemic hotspot, which has reported nearly a million new cases in three days.