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When the Allahabad High Court called oxygen shortage during COVID ‘not less than a genocide’

In May 2021, as deaths from shortages of medical oxygen soared across Uttar Pradesh, a two judge bench of Allahabad HC rapped the government for inaction. An excerpt from journalist Jyoti Yadav’s new book recounts how healthcare misgovernance marked one of the pandemic’s darkest chapters.