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People filling cylinders with medical oxygen at a refilling station in Allahabad, India, on Tuesday. Families across the country have been struggling to find beds with oxygen supply in the past few days.
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Debarshi Dasgupta India Correspondent In New Delhi, Debarshi Dasgupta
"I can't breathe" - this slogan associated with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States is now being shared by many Indians online to capture the country's desperate mood, as it struggles with an acute shortage of medical oxygen amid an unprecedented spike in coronavirus infections and deaths.
Families across the country have been struggling to find beds with oxygen supply in the past few days, with reports of some patients even dying outside hospitals because of a lack of beds.
