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Hannah Ellis-Petersen, our South Asia correspondent, writes from Delhi about the civilian oxygen army that has stepped into the breach, providing cylinders and oxygen refills free of charge to those in desperate need. Read her full story here:
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Crematoriums in the Indian capital of New Delhi are being forced to make makeshift funeral pyres in a measure of the desperate plight facing the country.
Grieving relatives of the dead are having to wait 20 or more hours for a funeral pyre amid an explosion of new Covid cases.
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