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'Suffering, gasping': experts warn of oxygen shortages in poorer virus-threatened nations

Photo|Courtesy:Medical supplies used in the fight against the pandemic

As the coronavirus pandemic bears down on vulnerable nations in Africa and South Asia, experts say there are only weeks to help fill chronic shortages of what medics need to help people breathe.

Not ventilators, but oxygen itself.

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