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US vows support to India for Covid fight, UK to send medical devices

A senior government official said India was urgently looking at augmenting oxygen supply

Start-ups, venture capitalists offer funds to tackle Oxygen scarcity

Amid oxygen shortage and a faltering health system in the country, India is seeing over 300,000 cases daily

Covid-19 crisis: US to release vaccine raw material immediately to India

The US will also urgently send oxygen generation and related supplies to India

Covid-19 second wave: Amazon to airlift over 10,000 oxygen concentrators

The e-commerce giant has joined hands with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation and Pune Platform for Covid-19 Response to airlift over 8000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore

Govt asks major ports to waive all charges for ships carrying oxygen

Port chairpersons have been asked to personally supervise logistic operations to ensure unhindered movement of such consignments

Indian Railways pitches in with Oxygen Express, ferries 150 MT to 2 states

Though just a blip compared with the nearly 6,600 MT medical oxygen produced per day, the Railways has been able to open a pathway from large infrastructure projects to cities

Covid-19: US agrees to send raw materials required by Indian vaccine makers

The United States is also pursuing options to provide India with oxygen generation and related supplies

Covid: RIL in talks to buy tankers for transport of liquid medical oxygen

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases being reported daily in the past few days

India Inc lends a hand to ease shortage and transportation of oxygen

On Friday, Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted that steel units across India had supplied over 143,000 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen till now with steel CPSEs pitching in with 39,000 tonnes

Covid-19 second wave: India Inc lends a hand amid shortage of oxygen

Over the weekend, many companies stepped in to ease the bottleneck in supply and transportation of oxygen, as demand ran high with the surge in cases

JSW Steel to ramp up supply of liquid medical oxygen to 900 tonnes daily

Hopes to achieve target by April end, is working to rait further

Oxygen Express with 70 tonnes of oxygen to reach Delhi by April 26

The railways has chalked out plans to transport medical oxygen from Angul, Kalingnagar, Rourkela and Raigarh to Delhi and NCR region

Tears, prayers, police, JCB: How Saroj Hospital saved over 100 lives

An oxygen tanker had reached the hospital after the staff spent hours running around in search of supplies and making frantic calls to the government and police

Oxygen brings relief to Lucknow but patients in home isolation suffer

Problems continue for patients in home isolation.

Oxygen shortage in Delhi hospital, over 50 patients in need of supply

Delhi's Penatamed Hospital on Saturday reported a severe oxygen shortage

Covid-19 crisis: NDMC preparing 50 beds with piped oxygen facility at RBIPMT

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation is preparing 50 beds with piped oxygen facility for Covid patients at the Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis in GTB Nagar.

Customs duty on Covid vaccine, oxygen, equipment exempted till July-end

Move comes amid an intensifying second wave of Covid-19 in the country

Kejriwal sends SOS to CMs of other states to help with oxygen for Delhi

Move came on a day 20 Covid-19 patients died at a private hospital as it was waiting for its oxygen to be replenished

Six patients die at Amritsar hospital allegedly due to oxygen shortage

Lapse prompts the Punjab authorities to order a probe into the incident

Covid-19 crisis: Startups step up efforts to assist in oxygen delivery

From crowdfunding to buy Oxygen concentrators to flying charters for bringing equipment and other essential supplies, startups do their bit