By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Under order by the Supreme Court, India's government has agreed to provide more medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital, potentially easing a 2-week-old shortage that worsened the country's exploding coronavirus crisis. Officials also denied reports that they have been slow in distributing life-saving supplies donated from abroad. The Supreme Court intervened in the supply of oxygen in New Delhi after 12 COVID-19 patients, including a senior doctor, died at a hospital when it ran out of oxygen for 80 minutes last week. On Thursday, the number of new confirmed coronavirus […]

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