Indian Billionaire, State-Run Oil Firm To Supply Oxygen For India s COVID-19 Fight
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State-owned oil marketing firm to supply oxygen free of cost in the south
Capital Delhi overtakes Mumbai in number of daily infections
Asia s richest man and oil tycoon, Mukesh Ambani, has offered to send 100 tons of oxygen to western India s hospitals struggling to cope with a deadly second wave of COVID-19. The financial hub of Mumbai, along with the wider Maharashtra state, is expected to require 2,000 metric tonnes of oxygen per day by April-end.
Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Ltd, which operates the world s biggest refining complex in the western part of India, has agreed to distribute 100 tons of oxygen, Maharashtra Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde said in a tweet. Mumbai is home to the Reliance headquarters and Ambani s famed $2 billion private residence.
Keep Covid morbidity rate below 5%, take necessary steps: Shinde
April 06, 2021
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The Maharashtra Urban Development Minister, Eknath Shinde on Tuesday directed the state administration to take all necessary measures to keep the Covid morbidity rate below 5 per cent. Care should be taken of patients in home quarantine and if necessary, the President and Secretary of the concerned societies should be given temporary powers as special police officers, Shinde said.
While the number of Covid patients are increasing in Maharashtra, the demand for Remdesivir medication is also shooting up. Therefore, care should be taken that the drug is not black marketed and an artificial shortage is created, Shinde said in a media statement.
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