Scamsters cash in on Covid-19 desperation amid a relentless second wave

Patients, their relatives getting conned on the promise of oxygen, medicine, hospital beds

On May 6, Delhi Police raided a South Delhi farmhouse and an upscale Lodhi Colony rest­au­rant. In the largest haul so far, they seized over 400 oxygen concentrators inten­ded to be sold in the black market at almost 3.5 times their actual price. On the same day, the Delhi government capped the maximum rates private ambu­lance services can charge, amid reports that they have been charging two to five times their normal rates during the second Covid wave. Four days prior to this, officers from Delhi’s Shahdara district arrested two individuals with a cache of fake Remdesivir, which they had