COVID-19: Saudi Arabia to ship 80 metric tonnes of oxygen to India

Saudi Arabia is shipping 80 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India as the country is running low on supplies due to an unprecedented spike in coronavirus casesIndia logged a record of 349691 new coronavirus infections in a day on Sunday taking its total tally of COVID19 cases to 16960172 The death toll increased to 192311 with a record 2767 daily new fatalities according to the Union Health Ministry dataThe supply shipment is being undertaken in cooperation with the Adani group and Linde companyEmbassy of India is proud to partner with Adani group and Ms Linde in shipping muchneeded 80MT liquid oxygen to India Our heartfelt thanks to the Ministry of Health Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for all their help support and cooperationrdquo the Indian mission in Riyadh tweetedThank you IndianEmbRiyadh Indeed actions speak louder than words We are on an urgent mission to secure oxygen supplies from across the world This first shipment of 4 ISO cryogenic tanks with 80 tons of liquid oxygen is now on its way from Dammam to Mundraiquest Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said in a tweetIndia is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and bedsTo combat the growing demand for oxygen in the country India has reached out to various countries to procure containers and oxygen cylinders under operation Oxygen MaitriThe Indian Air Force on Saturday brought four cryogenic tanks to be used for transporting oxygen from Singapore The containers were airlifted from Singapore by C17 heavylift aircraft of the IAFThe aircraft with 4 cryogenic containers for storage of liquid O2 from Singapore landed at Panagarh airbase in West Bengal on Saturday a home ministry spokesperson tweetedThe IAF was also transporting essential medicines as well as equipment required by the designated COVID19 hospitals in various parts of the countryOn Friday the Union Home Ministry said it was in talks for the import of highcapacity oxygencarrying tankers from Singapore and the UAEMeanwhile President of the European Council Charles Michel said in a tweet The EU stands in solidarity with Indian people amidst resurgent COVID19 pandemic The fight against the virus is a common fight We will discuss our support and cooperation at EUIndia Leaders meeting on 8 May with narendramodi and antoniocostapmFrench President Emmanuel Macron has also extended support to IndiaIn a tweet shared by the Indian embassy in France Macron said I want to send a message of solidarity to the Indian people facing a resurgence of COVID19 cases France is with you in this struggle which spares no one We stand ready to provide our supportThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever