{"id":110404,"date":"2021-01-23T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=110404"},"modified":"2021-01-23T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T03:08:26","slug":"covid-19-mexicans-queue-for-hours-for-oxygen-for-sick-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=110404","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Mexicans queue for hours for oxygen for sick relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mexicans-queue-for-hours-for-oxygen-for-sick-relatives.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mexicans-queue-for-hours-for-oxygen-for-sick-relatives.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; With hospitals in the Mexican<br>capital overwhelmed by soaring coronavirus infections, relatives are queuing for hours to buy oxygen for the growing number of people fighting the virus at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eduardo Martinez was waiting in line in a street in Mexico City on Friday<br>to fill a tank for his 55-year-old mother who is sick with Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearing a worsening of the pandemic, the 33-year-old biochemist bought a<br>cylinder in advance and saved his Christmas bonus, which he used to pay for a coronavirus test for his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite a partial lockdown in Mexico City, two of Martinez\u2019s neighbors<br>recently died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhere we live, people are very reckless and stupid, they don\u2019t wear<br>masks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some families have to return repeatedly, around the clock, for more oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese little tanks aren\u2019t enough, so we have to fill them four to five<br>times a day and night,\u201d said Viridiana Valencia, a 31-year-old<br>psychotherapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere is the only place that is open 24 hours a day. It\u2019s very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city of nine million people has been in a state of maximum alert since<br>mid-December, with more than 90 percent of hospital beds full due to soaring infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-essential activities have been suspended in the capital, which has<br>officially registered more than 26,000 Covid-19 deaths, out of nearly 147,000<br>nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demand for oxygen has leapt eightfold in the past month, Jesus Montano,<br>from Mexico\u2019s Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the government offers free refills at some locations, \u201cthe big<br>problem is the lack of tanks,\u201d he said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; With hospitals in the Mexicancapital overwhelmed by soaring coronavirus infections, relatives are queuing for hours to buy oxygen for the growing number of people fighting the virus at home. Eduardo Martinez was waiting in line in a street in Mexico City on Fridayto fill a tank for his 55-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":110406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}