India’s Newcastle Pneumonia (CCP) epidemic shows no sign of slowing down, and medical supplies such as oxygen units are scarce. In addition to the gradual arrival of aid from many countries around the world, India’s largest medical oxygen producer Linde Plc said on Thursday (29) that the country’s oxygen production could increase by 25 percent by the middle of next month, which is expected to ease the medical oxygen supply crisis by the middle of next month.
Linde executives Banerjee (Moloy Banerjee) said India’s medical oxygen consumption this month than the normal level increased by more than eight times, to about 7,200 tons per day, it was caught off guard to cause this oxygen supply crisis. Banerjee revealed that Linde Group and other suppliers will increase oxygen production to more than 9,000 tons per day by the middle of next month, which is expected to be shipped from the east to the western and northern regions where the epidemic is serious, to meet the demand for oxygen throughout the country. He said that India imported about 100 giant cryogenic containers, each can carry 80 to 160 tons of liquid oxygen, will use the train to transport to a number of cities, the Indian Air Force will also help transport.
India’s cumulative number of confirmed cases surpassed 18 million on Thursday, a global record for a single day, with 386,452 new cases and 3,498 deaths on Friday (30). Hospitals and morgues are overcrowded, and tens of thousands of people are frantically searching for beds and life-saving oxygen for their sick loved ones through social networks, etc. Every day, when a hospital bed becomes available, someone will pledge it within minutes, especially in the intensive care unit. Gravediggers are working around the clock to bury the epidemic dead, but there are still a large number of bodies that cannot be handled and are being temporarily cremated in parks and parking lots. The Indian military has begun transporting critical supplies such as oxygen across the country and will open medical facilities to civilians, converting hotels and train cars into critical care facilities to make up for the shortage of hospital beds.
India currently has an estimated 800 million doses of the vaccine in stock, and all people over the age of 18 began registering for the vaccine on Wednesday (28) and will receive it from Saturday (May 1). However, many Indian netizens have complained that the government website has crashed several times, making registration impossible. The government denies that the website is down and that more than 8 million people have registered, with the exact number of places not yet known. Officials in Mumbai said local vaccinations will be suspended for three days due to a shortage of vaccine supplies. Since vaccination began in January, only about 9 percent of India’s population of about 1.4 billion people have been vaccinated.
Indian Foreign Minister Su Jaisheng said Thursday that nearly 550 large oxygen devices are expected to be brought in from around the world, including the United States, Russia, Bangladesh, Germany are providing respirators and drugs and other supplies to the local. The U.S. State Department issued the highest level of travel alert on Wednesday, advising U.S. citizens to leave India as soon as possible and not to travel.
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