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20 COVID-19 patients die due to oxygen shortage in Delhi's Jaipur Golden Hospital
At least 20 Covid patients admitted in the critical care unit of Jaipur Golden hospital died late Friday night as the oxygen pressure was low.
20 critical Covid-19 patients have died at Jaipur Golden Hospital due to shortage of oxygen, hospital MD D K Baluja told ANI. The hospital said that it has only 45 minutes of oxygen left and the lives of more than 200 are in peril.
Jaipur Golden is among several hospitals in Delhi that have been complaining about shortage of oxygen supply this week.
On Thursday, 25 critically ill Covid patients who were on high-flow oxygen at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital died between Thursday and Friday morning. The hospital, however, did not officially link the deaths to shortage of oxygen.
Delhi on Friday logged 348 Covid-linked deaths in a span of 24 hours, registering its biggest-ever single-day spike in the death count. The city's death toll has reached 13,541 on Friday.
The Capital also recorded 24,331 new cases and the caseload has climbed up to 9,80,679 as the rapid second wave of infections ripped through the country. In addition to this, the state recorded 23,572 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
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