People wait to refill medical oxygen cylinders for Covid-19 coronavirus patients at a private refill centre in New Delhi on May 7, 2021. - AFP
NEW DELHI (The Straits Times/ANN): In a country home to the world s third-highest number of billionaires, questions have mounted over the lack of contribution from its uber rich to support India s fight against a crippling second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unlike in the first wave, when several among India s super rich contributed generously, their role during the ongoing second wave has mostly been symbolic or focused on measures such as boosting oxygen supply.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), owned by India s richest businessman Mukesh Ambani, donated five billion rupees (S$90.4 million) to the PM CARES Fund last year in March. This time, it has focused its efforts on setting up Covid-19-care facilities and boosting oxygen availability.
Reliance seeks permission to fly in Israeli experts for training and installation of rapid COVID-19 identification equipment
Jerusalem, May 6: Reliance Industries Limited has sought special permission to fly an Israeli team of experts to India to train and install a rapid COVID-19 identification solution it acquired from an Israeli start-up for USD 15 million.
The delegation from Breath of Health (BOH) has already received an emergency approval at Reliance’s request given the spike in coronavirus related cases in India and will be flying out soon, company sources told PTI here.
Israel has put a temporary ban on its citizens from flying to seven countries, including India, which have seen a surge in coronavirus cases. The experts from the Israeli medical technology company will guide Reliance’s team in India in operating the innovative system developed by it to identify coronavirus carriers and patients in the early stages of the disease by exhalation.
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The delegation from Breath of Health has already received an emergency approval at Reliance s request given the spike in coronavirus related cases in India and will be flying out soon, company sources told. Israel has put a temporary ban on its citizens from flying to seven countries, including India, which have seen a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Reliance Industries Limited has sought special permission to fly an Israeli team of experts to India to train and install a rapid COVID-19 identification solution it acquired from an Israeli start-up for USD 15 million.
The delegation from Breath of Health (BOH) has already received an emergency approval at Reliance s request given the spike in coronavirus related cases in India and will be flying out soon, company sources told here.
Reliance Industries Limited has sought special permission to fly an Israeli team of experts to India to train and install a rapid COVID-19 identification solution it acquired from an Israeli start-up for USD 15 million. The delegation from Breath of Health (BOH) has already received an emergency approval at Reliance s request given the spike in coronavirus related cases in India and will be flying out soon, company sources told PTI here.
Israel has put a temporary ban on its citizens from flying to seven countries, including India, which have seen a surge in coronavirus cases. The experts from the Israeli medical technology company will guide Reliance s team in India in operating the innovative system developed by it to identify coronavirus carriers and patients in the early stages of the disease by exhalation.