UK to send 3 oxygen generation units to India ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 03:40 IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): The United Kingdom will send three oxygen generation units, each with the capacity of producing 500 litres of oxygen per minute, to India in support of the country s fight against COVID-19.
The United Kingdom High Commission to India on Wednesday said it will send further vital oxygen equipment to India as the country is witnessing a record surge of coronavirus infection. Three oxygen generation units will be sent from surplus stocks in Northern Ireland to support India by providing more oxygen to those suffering from COVID-19. The oxygen units are each capable of producing 500 litres of oxygen per minute, enough for 50 people to use at a time. Oxygen is one of the main needs of India s healthcare system, the statement read.
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.
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Collaboration is key: UK sends first batch of medical supplies to India as it battles Covid crisis India Today Web Desk UK sends medical supplies to India
India on Tuesday received the first batch of medical supplies sent by the UK to help the country battle its second wave of Covid-19. UK has sent ventilators and oxygen concentrators that arrived on Tuesday morning.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a tweet, Good to see the first of our medical supplies have now arrived in India and will be deployed where they are needed most. No one is safe until we are all safe. International collaboration is key to fighting this global threat.
COVID-19 crisis: UK dispatches first shipment of ventilators, oxygen concentrators to India
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that vital medical equipment, including hundreds of oxygen concentrators and ventilators, is on its way from the UK to India to support efforts to prevent the tragic loss of life from this terrible virus
PTI | April 27, 2021 | Updated 09:23 IST
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
The first life-saving assistance package to help India meet the urgent need for ventilators and oxygen concentrators in its devastating second wave of the covid-19 pandemic has been dispatched by the UK and is due to arrive in New Delhi in the early hours of Tuesday.