News about deaths of 5 patients due to oxygen shortage is baseless & fake: Ludhiana deputy commissioner

LUDHIANA: Deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Monday clarified that the news about the death of five Covid patients was completely baseless and fake.
In a Facebook live on the official page of DPRO Ludhiana after a fake video surfaced on social media claiming the deaths of five Covid patients due to shortage of oxygen in a private hospital, the deputy commissioner said that no patient had died to a shortage of life-saving gas.
He told that these deaths have been reported due to Covid-19.
He appealed to the people not to pay heed to rumours and ordered the commissioner of police to take strict action against those spreading such false news and creating a nuisance and fear among the people during such sensitive times.
Deputy commissioner said that the private hospital mentioned in this fake news, had been receiving 150 oxygen cylinders daily and it had sufficient stock of the life-saving gas even now.
He made it clear that there was not any shortage at all in Ludhiana despite there is a rise in the patients of level-III.