Page 5 - Oxygen

It was terrifying, upsetting: Warner on stay in India during IPL

IPL 2021 had to be suspended on May 4 after four of the participating franchises were affected by the virus.

Delhi Police to deploy 4 quick reaction teams for helping Covid patients

The Delhi Police will deploy at least four well-equipped Quick Reaction Teams in southwest district for facilitating medical assistance and oxygen support to Covid patients

SC stays Delhi HC order on levy of IGST on imported oxygen concentrators

The Supreme Court stayed a Delhi High Court order holding as "unconstitutional the imposition of IGST by the Centre on import of oxygen concentrators by individuals for personal use

Centre to release 2,000 tonnes of Oxygen daily for supply to industries

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Tuesday informed that they will be releasing about 2,000 tonnes of Oxygen on a daily basis for supply to industries

MG Motor India reports sale of 1,016 units in May amid Covid-related woes

The company's sales were impacted by the lockdown imposed to curb the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic along with production constraints due to diversion of oxygen for medical use.

Centre allows supply of oxygen to certain industries on 'temporary basis'

The Central government on Monday allowed the supply of oxygen to certain industries on 'temporary basis subject to ensuring adequate supply of medical oxygen to hospitals and other medical purposes'.Union Home Ministry had received a request from oxygen manufacturing industries to the allow supply of oxygen to industries other than the industries exempted by it.According to the Ministry, the industries that made the requests were: Continuous process industries/ plants such as furnaces, refineries, steel, aluminum, copper processing plants etc. which require continuous power supply, infrastructucture projects and plants, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) exporters of manufacturing sector requiring oxygen for production, and Food Processing Units."In this regard, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) may allow usage of liquid oxygen to the above-mentioned industries/ projects/ units on temporary basis subject to ensuring adequate supply of liquid .

Lions Club of Gauhati adds more auto ambulances with oxygen cylinder

The Lions Club of Gauhati added two more COVID auto ambulances with oxygen cylinder to serve coronavirus patients amid rising oxygen requirements with increasing cases.

Delhi man turns his car into 'emergency response vehicle' to help patients

Nagia, who is working at an IT company in Noida, has equipped his car with all the necessary equipment like oxygen cylinders, medicines, oximeter, food, water, and oxygen cans

Ukraine's first shipment of 184 oxygen concentrators arrives in India

An aircraft carrying the first shipment of 184 oxygen concentrators arrived from Ukraine to India on Monday, as the country battles the second wave of coronavirus pandemic

Govt may lift restrictions on oxygen use for some industries in 2-3 days

The government is likely to lift restrictions on the use of liquid oxygen for some priority industries in the next 2-3 days as demand for medical oxygen has come down

Govt reconstitutes empowered groups on Covid; oxygen, vaccination included

The Centre reconstituted the six empowered groups set up for COVID-19 management to make 10 panels, expanding their ambit to look into issues like availability of oxygen, vaccination, etc

Priyanka alleges govt increased export of oxygen by 700% in 2020

In a Facebook post, the Congress leader said that as the second wave of Covid-19 raged, almost every Indian state began reporting a shortage of oxygen.

O2 concentrator hoarding: Delhi police opposes Kalra's bail plea in Court

This is in connection with a case relating to the alleged hoarding of oxygen concentrators

Blood oxygen levels may explain why memory loss is symptom in Alzheimer's

Scientists have recorded blood oxygen levels in the hippocampus and provided experimental proof for why the area is vulnerable to damage and degeneration, a precursor to Alzheimer's disease

Maruti Suzuki in process of installing 24 oxygen plants in govt hospitals

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday said it along with its supplier partners are in the process of installing 24 oxygen plants in government hospitals by the first half of June

Railways delivered 19,408 tonnes of oxygen to 39 cities over last month

So far, 289 Oxygen Express trains have completed their journey while 11 more are on their way carrying more than 865 tonnes of the life-saving gas in 50 tankers.

O2 unavailability deepens steel output fall as secondary players shut mills

RP Steel and Arora Steel secondary speciality steel players impacted by the unavailability of oxygen

Japan to provide additional ventilators, oxygen concentrators to India

Japan on Friday decided to help India with additional ventilators and oxygen concentrators through United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) to fight against COVID-19 pandemic."Japan has decided to provide additional 1,000 ventilators and 2,000 oxygen concentrators to India through UNOPS. The number of cases are declining, but we can't let our guard down. We remain committed to helping our friends in India. #FightCOVID #JapanIndia," tweeted Embassy of Japan in India."The ventilators Japan had announced to provide to the Indian people have just arrived in India! We hope these ventilators will help as many people's lives as possible," added the embassy.Many countries, including Japan, US, UK, Russia have come forward to provide India with COVID-19 assistance in its fight against the pandemic.The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Friday informed that as many as 1,86,364 fresh COVID-19 cases have been reported in India in the last 24 hours.

Delhi govt to give Rs 5 lakh compensation for death due to lack of oxygen

The Delhi government will give compensation amount of up to Rs 5 lakh to families of those Covid patients who died due to lack of oxygen

Maruti Suzuki ties up with three firms for production of oxygen generators

The company said that as part of that, it has been able to increase the output levels of oxygen generators by over 10 times.