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   Over the past one month, the COVID-19 outbreak in India has exploded. As cases worldwide reach new weekly records, 40 per cent of the infections are coming from India. India on Friday reported 3,32,730 fresh COVID-19 new cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day tally any country reported ever since the pandemic began last year. And in addition India's national capital Delhi witnessing shortage of oxygen. Hospitals are suffering from acute shortage of oxygen despite strict government orders to ensure uninterrupted production and supply of medical oxygen. Let us take a look at the staggering situation across Delhi:

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   A patient, wearing an oxygen mask, sits outside Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), one of the largest facilities for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients only, in New Delhi. (Reuters Photo)

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   Delhi has reported over 1,750 deaths due to the deadly virus in the last 10 days. (Reuters Photo)

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   Several private hospitals in Delhi struggled to replenish their oxygen supply for coronavirus patients. (PTI Photo)

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   Family members of COVID-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling center to refill their empty cylinders, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronovirus cases, at Mayapuri in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

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   While some of these hospitals have been able to make short-term arrangements, there is no immediate end to the crisis in sight. (PTI Photo)

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   In Delhi, authorities logged 249 deaths on Wednesday, 277 on Tuesday, 240 on Monday, 161 deaths on Sunday, 167 on Saturday, and 141 on Friday. (Reuters Photo)

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   With hospitals in the city scrambling to shore up oxygen supplies, good samaritans and social organisations across Delhi-NCR are giving a new lease of life to COVID-19 patients gasping for breath by opening "oxygen langar" for them and refilling cylinders for free. (PTI Photo)

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   The number of active cases in the national capital increased to 91,618 from 85,364 on Wednesday. (PTI Photo)

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    Amid healthcare facilities in the national capital facing an acute shortage of oxygen, the lives of over 200 COVID-19 patients were saved on Thursday after police managed to arrange oxygen cylinders for the Fortis Hospital in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh. (PTI Photo)

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    With the fresh cases, Delhi's cumulative tally has risen to 9,56,348. The death toll stands at 13,193, according to the latest health bulletin. (Reuters Photo)