{"id":31210,"date":"2021-04-22T03:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/apr\/21\/india-officials-scramble-to-stop-oxygen-tank-leak-that-left-22-covid-19-patients-dead-video"},"modified":"2021-04-22T03:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:05:36","slug":"india-officials-scramble-to-stop-oxygen-tank-leak-that-left-22-covid-19-patients-dead-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31210","title":{"rendered":"India: officials scramble to stop oxygen tank leak that left 22 Covid-19 patients dead \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 patients have died in a western Indian hospital after their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leak in a supply tank. The leak was plugged by the fire service within 15 minutes, but there was supply disruption in the Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik, a city in Maharashtra state, that is the worst-hit by the latest surge in coronavirus cases in India. Television showed images of people with empty oxygen cylinders crowding refilling facilities as they scrambled to save stricken relatives in hospital.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/system-has-collapsed-india-descent-into-covid-hell\">\u2018The system has collapsed\u2019: India\u2019s descent into Covid hell<\/a><\/li>\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<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/apr\/21\/india-officials-scramble-to-stop-oxygen-tank-leak-that-left-22-covid-19-patients-dead-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 patients have died in a western Indian hospital after their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leak in a supply tank. The leak was plugged by the fire service within 15 minutes, but there was supply disruption in the Zakir Hussain Hospital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[1066,62,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","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\/31210","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31230,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31210\/revisions\/31230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}