Indian government faces lockdown calls, contempt charges

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India’s government is facing calls for a strict lockdown to slow a devastating surge in new virus cases, and a court in New Delhi will decide whether to punish officials for failing to end an erratic supply of oxygen to overstretched hospitals.

FILE - In this May 3, 2021, file photo, a man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test.

Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the opposition Congress party, said this week “a lockdown is now the only option because of a complete lack of strategy by the Indian government.” Raghav Chaddha, a spokesman for the Aam Aadmi Party governing New Delhi, said hospitals were getting only 40% of their 700 metric tons requirements through the federal government, and the local government was arranging additional supplies to meet the shortfall and setting up new oxygen plants.

Dileep Kumar, a student, said he was asked by hospital authorities to shift his father to another hospital in Ghaziabad, a town on the outskirts of New Delhi, after it ran out of oxygen on Tuesday.

 

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Uh, this should be a no-brainer.

He destroyed the country, thrown it into a Perilous situation with an apocalyptic humanitarian catastrophe unfolding by the minute. He has no right to represent the people or country, Modi is guilty of crimes against humanity

Lockdown is necessary to bring the devastating Covid crisis under control. The government will have to ensure adequate oxygen supply to the needy.

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