: Centre will soon say there was no Covid: Opposition on ‘no deaths due to oxygen shortages’ claim #IndiaNEWS Several opposition parties on Wednesday castigated the Centre after it said that states

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Centre will soon say there was no Covid: Opposition on ‘no deaths due to oxygen shortages’ claim #IndiaNEWS
Several opposition parties on Wednesday castigated the Centre after it said that states did not specifically report any deaths due to oxygen shortages during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.Bharati Pravin Pawar, minister of state, Health and Family Welfare, said this in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.The minister’s statement triggered outrage on social media as India struggled with a grave oxygen crisis in the second wave of the pandemic. The shortages of the life-saving gas had forced families and friends of patients to plead for help on social media. Hospitals sent out SOS messages as their oxygen stocks ran dangerously low.Responding to the minister’s claim, the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday alleged that the Centre had blocked the Delhi government’s efforts to assess deaths due to oxygen shortages during the second wave of the coronavirus.Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that oxygen shortages led to many deaths across the country, including in the national capital. “They [Centre] will soon say there was no Covid-19,� he told ANI. “If there were no deaths due to lack of oxygen, then why were hospitals going to the high court for shortages? This is completely false.�He added that the Delhi government had formed a committee to assess deaths due to the lack of...Read more

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