22 Covid patients die due to oxygen leak in India

Twenty two Covid patients have died at Zakir Hussain hospital in Nasik, India after they lost oxygen supply due to a leak on Wednesday while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank.

According to officials there was no oxygen flowing to ventilators for about 30 minutes resulting in fatalities.

India is in the middle of a second wave of Covid infections reporting over 340, 000 cases daily. The surge has overwhelmed the country’s hospitals, creating a shortage of not just oxygen but also beds and life-saving drugs.

Elsewhere, hospitals in Delhi complained on Tuesday they were hours away from running out of oxygen and supplies were replenished late at night with tankers from the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh.