Watch: Patients in Brazil’s Manaus city struggle to breathe as oxygen runs out during the pandemic

Name: Watch: Patients in Brazil’s Manaus city struggle to breathe as oxygen runs out during the pandemic
Uploaded: 2021-01-19T07:53:00.035105+05:30
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Description: Residents of Amazonas state, which is running out of oxygen because of a renewed Covid-19 surge, are flocking to local distributors for refills.

Residents of Amazonas state, which is running out of oxygen because of a renewed Covid-19 surge, are flocking to local distributors for refills.

Scroll Staff

Jan 19, 2021 · 07:53 am

Desperate residents of Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, lined up for a refill of their oxygen cylinders as the hospitals in the city ran out of oxygen tanks. pic.twitter.com/06QpNpATps
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) January 18, 2021

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