COVID-19: India's oxygen shortage leaves people begging for air

An acute oxygen shortage in India's hospitals has left desperate people begging and bartering for air.

Britain announced it was sending "more than six hundred pieces of vital medical equipment" which will arrive on Tuesday – but the people on the ground have yet to see any substantial help from their own government or from other countries.

Sky’s special correspondent Alex Crawford reports from the new epicentre of the global COVID-19 crisis.

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