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Covid-19 in India: where oxygen is rationed

In India the number of people infected with the coronavirus has risen to more than six million. We hear from a doctor who treats Covid-19 patients.

Dr Swapneil Parekh, is a clinical researcher at Kasturba Hospital of infectious diseases in Mumbai. He says the government is now rationing oxygen and low income workers don't have access to healthcare.

(Photo: A medical worker treating a Covid-19 patient in a hospital in New Delhi. Sept 2020. Copyright: Reuters)

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