1,900 oxygen cannulas, 896 oxygen cylinders from Czech Republic, Austria arrive in India

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Aircraft carrying 1900 oxygen cannulas and 396 oxygen cylinders from Austria and 500 oxygen cylinders from Czech Republic arrived in India.

As India battles the second wave of coronavirus, plane carrying 1,900 oxygen cannulas and 396 oxygen cylinders from Austria and 500 oxygen cylinders from Czech Republic arrived in India on Saturday.

“Czech Republic and India enjoy a long-lasting friendship. They’ve been together in good and bad times. I’m happy that we’ve been able to tie up with our Austrian friends and the entire operation has been done together as part of Europe Team,” Milan Hovorka, Ambassador of Czech Republic stated.

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On Saturday, a document 4,187 COVID-19 fatalities in a day took India’s loss of life toll to 2,38,270, whereas 4,01,078 new infections had been reported throughout the interval, pushing the tally of instances to 2,18,92,676, based on Union Health Ministry knowledge.

Registering a gradual improve, energetic instances have reached 37,23,446 which comprise 17.01 per cent of the whole infections, whereas the nationwide COVID-19 restoration fee has dropped to 81.90 per cent, the info up to date at 8 am confirmed.

The quantity of people that have recuperated from the illness surged to 1,79,30,960, whereas the case fatality fee was recorded at 1.09 per cent, the info acknowledged.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 final yr, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went previous 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.

India crossed the grim milestone of two crore instances on May 4 this yr. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 30,04,10,043 samples have been examined as much as May 7 with 18,08,344 being examined on Friday.

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