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		</div><p>Thefts of oxygen mounted as Mexico reported its highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began, with 1,584 deaths confirmed.</p>
<p>There was also a near-record one-day rise in new virus cases of 18,894.</p>
<p>The Mexican Social Security Institute reported that an armed man burst into a government hospital in northern Sonora state around noon on Tuesday and stole seven oxygen tanks.</p>
<p>The institute said the man pointed a gun at a hospital employee, demanded to know where the oxygen was kept, and took four empty canisters and three full ones.</p>
<p>Authorities in the city of Navajoa are looking for the man and and another suspect who drove off in a car carrying the tanks.</p>
<p>Also on Tuesday, police in the town of Tultepec, just north of Mexico City, chased down a small freight lorry carrying 44 oxygen tanks, after the lorry was reported stolen.</p>
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<p>Two suspects were detained at the scene.</p>
<p>The thefts came as authorities launched a campaign urging people to return rented oxygen tanks they no longer need, saying enormous demand amid the pandemic has created a shortage of the cylinders.</p>
<p>The consumer affairs agency launched an online campaign under the slogan Return Your Tank, For The Love of Life.</p>
<p>With hospitals in Mexico City and other states overwhelmed by a wave of Covid-19 cases, many families have turned to treating their relatives at home with supplementary oxygen, creating spot shortages of tanks and oxygen for refills.</p>
<p>But once patients recover, the agency said, many people simply keep the canisters just in case someone else falls ill.</p>
<p>“By doing this they are depriving other patients of something they need at a given moment, and cannot get,” the agency said.</p>
<p>Even those who have their own tanks must often wait in long lines and wait hours to get oxygen tanks filled.</p>
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<p>Mexico has seen almost 1.67 million confirmed coronavirus infections and almost 143,000 test-confirmed deaths related to Covid-19.</p>
<p>With the country’s extremely low testing rate, official estimates suggest the real death toll is closer to 195,000.</p>
<p>The country’s defence department, meanwhile, said four doses of coronavirus vaccine were stolen at a public hospital in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, probably by a hospital employee or with the aid of an employee.</p>
<p>“This theft was able to be carried out through the dishonesty and greed of a member of the hospital’s vaccination staff,” the department said in a statement.</p>
<p>The army has been given responsibility for transporting and guarding vaccines in Mexico, but a private security firm was apparently in charge inside the hospital.</p>
<p>Before Tuesday, Mexico had received only about 750,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and several people have been sanctioned for cutting lines to get doses.</p>
<p>Mexico’s total amount so far is enough to vaccinate about half of the country’s 750,000 front-line medical personnel, all of whom will need two doses.</p>
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