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“I would be grateful if you could provide us with any stocks of oxygen, along with cryogenic tankers for its movement. We would also welcome any help in import of cryogenic oxygen tankers from any other country,” he said in his letter.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on April 25 had announced an extension of the lockdown announced on April 19 in Delhi, which will now continue till 5 am on May 3. The CM pointed out that the severity of COVID-19 is unabated and positivity rate has been as high as 36 per cent in the last few days.

fter the Central government claimed that the Delhi government has failed to show site readiness for the installation of proposed Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Oxygen Generation plants, the Arvind Kejriwal-led government on Sunday accused the Centre of making excuses to delay the plants. Eight pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation plants are being installed in Delhi from the PM Cares Fund and they will enhance the capacity of medical oxygen by 14.4 metric tonnes, central government sources said on Sunday.

Amid shortage of Oxygen in the national capital, 44 Oxygen cylinders were delivered to NKS Super Specialty Hospital on April 25. On learning about the crisis, Gulabi Bagh Police came into action and arranged the Oxygen cylinders from Bawana.

"Delhi is my home and I will keep serving the people till my last breath. With many requests for beds, oxygen and medicines, we are helping as many as we can. These are really tough times and every help in this gloom comes as a ray of hope," the MP was quoted as saying in a statement from his office.

This comes as several state governments facing an acute shortage of medical oxygen amid the Covid-19 outbreak seek the National transporters help to restore supplies.

“The GNCTD should, therefore, make all-out efforts for procurement of cryogenic tankers from whatever source they can be made available and look for all possible avenues,” the court ordered.

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Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director, SpiceJet, said the airline, along with SpiceHealth, is "looking at bringing more than 10,000 oxygen concentrators in the coming days from across the globe".

We have started a portal that will be updated every two hours by oxygen manufacturers, suppliers and hospitals for better management of oxygen supply. The Central and State teams are working together, said Kejriwal.

The Delhi high court on Saturday has taken note of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), which predicted the "Covid-19 tsunami" in mid of May, and said that there is a need to think about how to deal with it.

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Twenty critically ill patients died overnight at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi amid a serious oxygen crisis, officials said. "The oxygen pressure has dipped as we are running out of stock," Dr D K Baluja, the medical director of Jaipur Golden Hospital, said.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said that the national capital has been allotted more medical Oxygen than what the Delhi government had asked for. He said that it is state government’s responsibility to finely plan how to rationalise the quota in a timely manner.(ANI)

In an April 24 communication to the Delhi governments health department, Inox has cited the national Oxygen supply plan drawn up by the Centres Empowered Group 2 and its own limited production capacity, for its inability to serve the remaining 28 hospitals.

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"The DRDO is adding another 250 beds later in the evening today at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel COVID hospital in New Delhi, taking the total number of beds to 500. In Gujarat, a 1,000-bed hospital has become operational," the minister said in a tweet.

Also, more than 11% of samples from across India show “variants of concern”, said experts at research institutes who have done genome sequencing of the samples. As many as 1,644 cases of the UK strain were found in India.

"We will hang that man. We will not spare anyone," the court said while telling the Delhi government to give one instance of any official at the central, state or local administration obstructing the pickup of oxygen supplies.

"The CAIT has urged for extension of lockdown in Delhi beyond April 26... as and when the situation is improved, the lockdown can be lifted," the confederation said in a statement. It added that although lockdown will cause financial loss to traders and the economy, "yet we are of the considered opinion that in order to save the lives of the people of Delhi and protect them from any further spread of COVID-19, we have sought the extension".

Patnaik on Thursday spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and promised to extend all cooperation at the national level, including ramping up oxygen production, to assist other states in this emergency.

“The counsel has suggested and we find merit in it that if any construction worker is found COVID-19 positive, he should be provided medical assistance on production of RT-PCR report,” a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said.

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Michel, accused in a case of corruption filed by the CBI in relation to the scam and another case of money laundering filed by the ED, has moved the bail applications, saying that no purpose was being served by keeping him in custody.

"Last year, we were buying masks, hand sanitiser and infrared thermometers. This year, thanks to the ferocious second wave, we are buying oximeters, oxygen sprays and are even considering buying the super-expensive oxygen concentrator for the family," said city-based businessman Dinesh Thappa (45).