22 Apr 2021; MEMO: According to a report by Business Today, India sold twice as much oxygen to the world during the first ten months of fiscal 2020-21 as compared to entire financial year before it, shows data from Department of Commerce
This happened despite the fact that India was one of the three worst-affected nations from the coronavirus pandemic for a substantial portion of this period.
Central government in Delhi has the authority to assign medical oxygen quota to the states. It raised Delhi’s quota from 378 metric tonnes to 480 metric tonnes on Wednesday.
Medical oxygen is a crucial resource in treating critically-ill coronavirus patients, which has been in short supply with the second wave of the pandemic resulting in exceptionally high demand across the country.
