Oxygen Inc battles huge odds as India gasps for air
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Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met India’s top oxygen producers and urged them to increase supply and divert tankers meant for other gases to store and ferry oxygen. Till 2019, India’s oxygen requirement was 700 tonnes per day. The first wave of Covid-19 infections pushed that demand up four times.
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India’s oxygen makers as well as steel and gas companies are battling time and logistical constraints to link oxygen-surplus locations to deficit areas.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met India’s top oxygen producers and urged them to increase supply and divert tankers meant for other gases to store and ferry oxygen.