Prince Charles is urging the public to back an appeal to buy oxygen equipment for India. Photo / Getty ImagesPrince Charles is urging the public to back an appeal to buy oxygen equipment for India. Photo / Getty ImagesPrince Charles said on Wednesday that he is "deeply saddened" by the surge in coronavirus deaths in India, as he urged the public to back an appeal to buy oxygen equipment for the stricken nation. The British Asian Trust, a charity Charles founded in 2007, launched an emergency appeal called "Oxygen for India" to buy oxygen concentrators, which can extract oxygen from the air when hospital infrastructure struggles to cope. The Foreign Office said late Wednesday that the UK will also send three oxygen generation units to support India's fight against the pandemic.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 28, 2021 19:52 UTC