Opinion | Covid pandemic: Do not fear the virus
India TV NewsA nightmarish scenario is prevalent in Delhi-NCR and several other metros of India, with frequent calls for ICU beds, ventilators, oxygen beds. 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators have arrived in India from UK, ISO oxygen tankers have come from Thailand at West Bengal’s Panagarh IAF airbase, both UAE and Saudi Arabia are sending oxygen concentrators to India, along with 80 tonnes of medical oxygen, while CEOs of 40 US companies have set up a global task force to send help and supplies to India. Additional stocks of oxygen equipment are being diverted from US army field hospitals to India, Lockheed Martin will be sending helicopters and cargo planes to move stocks to small towns across India. India has asked the US for oxygen concentrators, 10-litre and 45-litre capacity oxygen cylinders, oxygen generators and vital medicines like Remdesivir, Faviprivir and Tocilizumab for Covid patients. In India, an Oxygen Express carrying medical oxygen tankers arrived from Jindal steel plant in Chhattisgarh at Delhi Cantt railway station.