‘Hang them all’: India’s scammers profit from coronavirus misery

From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders and recycled personal protective equipment, India’s coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly consequences.Komal Taneja’s husband Chandrakant died gasping for breath at his New Delhi home last month after the oxygen canister that they paid US$200 for on the internet never arrived.“We desperately tried to find a hospital bed for a week … Two private hospitals asked us…

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