{"id":31177,"date":"2021-04-21T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/delhi-warns-hospitals-running-out-of-oxygen-amid-indias-devastating-covid-wave"},"modified":"2021-04-21T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:38:06","slug":"delhi-warns-hospitals-running-out-of-oxygen-amid-indias-devastating-covid-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31177","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen leak kills 22 in Indian hospital as Covid crisis worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in Delhi say they only have enough oxygen to last eight to 24 hours <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/why-is-india-seeing-such-a-huge-surge-in-covid-19-cases\">Why is India seeing such a huge surge in Covid-19 cases?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/apr\/21\/coronavirus-live-news-india-reports-over-200000-cases-for-seventh-straight-day-japan-mulls-new-restrictions\">Follow our global coronavirus live blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least 22 patients have died in a hospital in western India after a disruption to their oxygen supply caused by a leaking tank, the health minister said, as a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases soaks up supplies of the crucial gas.<\/p>\n<p>The incident in the city of Nashik, one of India\u2019s worst-hit areas, happened after the tank of gas leaked, said Rajesh Tope, the health minister of Maharashtra, the richest state, where the city is located.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/delhi-warns-hospitals-running-out-of-oxygen-amid-indias-devastating-covid-wave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in Delhi say they only have enough oxygen to last eight to 24 hours Why is India seeing such a huge surge in Covid-19 cases?Follow our global coronavirus live blogAt least 22 patients have died in a hospital in western India after a disruptio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31205,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177\/revisions\/31205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}