UK adds 3 oxygen factories to life-saving supplies for India
UK adds 3 oxygen factories to life-saving supplies for India
The UK said it will send vital oxygen equipment to India in support of the country s fight against Covid-19.
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The UK will send vital oxygen equipment to India. (Image for representation: PTI)
The UK on Wednesday said that it will send further vital oxygen equipment to India in support of the country s fight against Covid-19, including so-called oxygen factories capable of high levels of oxygen production per minute.
Three oxygen generation units will be sent from surplus stocks in Northern Ireland, with each oxygen unit capable of producing 500 litres of oxygen per minute, enough for 50 people to use at a time.
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It’s the American Dream for Europe’s troubled tourism sector. On Sunday European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told the New York Times that fully vaccinated American tourists could visit the bloc this summer.
But the US accounts for a tiny proportion of travelers to tourist-dependent countries such as Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. To prevent another lost holiday season for these nations, a full reopening of intra-European travel is needed. And that still looks some ways off.
The prospect of US tourists coming to Europe is certainly a step in the right direction. Americans have been eager to travel again, and domestic summer rentals have been booking up fast. Some people might now be tempted to swap their Cape Cod getaway for a trip to Capri. American travelers would be a boon to the continent’s local economies and to international hotel groups, such as Marriott International Inc., InterContinental Hotels Group Plc and Accor SA.
India’s death toll from COVID-19 has crossed the grim milestone of 200,000 as the country continued to face shortages of hospital beds, medical oxygen and other essential supplies.
A calamitous second wave of the coronavirus has seen at least 300,000 people test positive each day for the past seven days, overwhelming health facilities and crematoriums and prompting an increasingly urgent response from allies overseas sending equipment.
The health ministry on Wednesday recorded 360,960 new cases in the previous 24 hours, for the world’s largest single-day total, taking India’s tally of infections to nearly 18 million. It was also the deadliest day so far, with 3,293 fatalities carrying the toll to 201,187.
That is the biggest contribution we can make, UK Health Secretary said. (File)
London:
An extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been secured to help support a booster COVID-19 vaccination programme beginning from the autumn months later in the year, the UK government said on Wednesday.
During a Downing Street briefing where he made that announcement, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was questioned about sending vaccines to India as it battles a massive second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and faces vaccine shortages. We currently have no excess doses, we are doing what we can. but we work very closely with India on vaccine production, the minister said, adding that the UK had ensured at-cost supply of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines to the Serum Institute of India, which is manufacturing some of the largest number of doses of the jabs in the world by benefitting from British science .
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