<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6360497" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="peru">Peru</keyword> is the country with the world's highest <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> death rate per capita.</li><li>Hospitals are running out of <keyword id="6355647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oxygen">oxygen</keyword> as the country rides out a punishing second wave.</li><li>Families turning to the black market for oxygen are paying as much as $400 for one tank filling.</li></ul>

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The pandemic caused oxygen shortages around the world as hospitals ran out of supply and struggled to keep up. Prices of oxygen skyrocketed in places like Peru, Brazil, Mexico, and India because they lack infrastructure and rely on oxygen cylinders, which are more expensive.

Peru has the world's highest COVID-19 death rate — and people are paying 1,000% markups on black-market oxygen tanks

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Peru has the world's highest COVID-19 death rate - and people are paying 1,000% markups on black-market oxygen tanks

Prices of oxygen skyrocketed in places like Peru, Brazil, Mexico, and India because they lack infrastructure and rely on expensive oxygen cylinders.

Peru has the world's highest COVID-19 death rate - and people are paying 1,000% markups on black-market oxygen tanks

Jacqueline Baylon,Robin Lindsay

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