The coronavirus has a firm grip on India.
The lack of oxygen has been acute for a while and the situation is desperate in several places with overcrowded hospitals.
As recently as yesterday, several patients died at a hospital in Delhi after the oxygen ran out, local media reports.
France and Germany, among others, have sent medical equipment and oxygen to India.
The UK has sent out respirators and announces that a further number will be sent shortly.
"We will send another shipment of 1,000 respirators very soon," Foreign Minister Dominic Raab told the BBC.
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Now the vaccine shortage is also evident.
Less than half of India's states have been able to start vaccinating those over the age of 18, The Guardian reports.
India opened up vaccination for all adults over the weekend, but the number of doses is limited and those under the age of 45 can only register online.
Experts believe that the country needs to think differently about vaccination, especially in poor areas where not everyone may have access to the internet.
- Give vaccines to humans in the same way we carry out our polio and measles campaigns, says Hemant Shewade, public health expert in Bangalore.
The government is criticized
The government is now being criticized for inadequate planning in terms of vaccine doses for a country with 1.3 billion inhabitants.
India waited to order vaccines until January 2021, when 15.5 million doses were ordered.
This is despite the fact that one of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers - the Serum Institute of India - is present in the country.
If everyone over the age of 18 in India is to be vaccinated before the end of the year, 7.5 million people need to be vaccinated every day.