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Virgin Atlantic pilot launches mission to deliver oxygen concentrators to Covid-stricken India

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Virgin Atlantic pilot launches mission to deliver oxygen concentrators to Covid-stricken India

Virgin Atlantic pilot launches mission to deliver oxygen concentrators to Covid-stricken India

A pilot moved by the distressing scenes caused by Covid-19 in India has raised money to buy 30 oxygen concentrators, which he hopes to fly to the stricken country himself.Chris Hall, who is a captain for Virgin Atlantic, grew up in Delhi and has been horrified by the latest surge of coronavirus in India, where new cases are rising by record amounts and there is a shortage of both hospital beds and medical oxygen.


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