LIMA — While loved ones are fighting for breath at home, hundreds of Peruvians have taken to sleeping on the street, sometimes for days on end, in queues of people desperate for oxygen amid a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the night chill, they take cover in small tents, under blankets or sheets of cardboard outside Criogas, a small oxygen factory in the port city ofEl Callao near the capital Lima.
Hundreds of man-sized oxygen cylinders line the street outside the factory, each bearing the name of the person who brought it.
“Yesterday I stood in a long queue. I’ve been here since 5:00 am yesterday. I arrived late because when I came, there were people w…
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