On Saturday, Indian Air Force successfully airlifted 4 Cryogenic Oxygen tanks from Singapore and marked their first successful airlift in this Covid situation.

The Aircraft C-17 of the Indian Air force took off to India at 2 a.m. on 24th April from the Hindon Air Base for Changi International Airport, Singapore. Adding to it the IAF said, “After loading 4 containers of cryogenic oxygen tanks, it will leave for Singapore and will then land at Panagarh air base. These containers will then be offloaded by this evening,” the Air Force said.

So far, 1, 70, 00,000 COVID-19 cases have been reported in India while. Currently, there are 26, 82,751 positive cases of COVID-19 in the country, which keeps rising due to lack of medications and oxygen.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed their concerns with the people of India. Prime Minister Imran Khan said, “We must fight this global challenge confronting humanity together and solidarity with the people of India as they fight with this deadly Covid-19”.

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This airlifting of Oxygen is the first step of success a day after the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar put out a help for India on the global level. The tanks used for the carriage of oxygen were lifted from Singapore’s Changi Airport and which landed successfully on Saturday at Panagarh air base in West Bengal. Singapore’s Embassy in New Delhi passed a statement that, “We stand with India in this fight with Covid-19, and also it is a bi-lateral and multi-agency effort.”

The Indian Embassy in Riyadh announced that they will be sending 80MT of liquid oxygen to India through a company in Saudi Arabia.  Also apart from Singapore and UAE, the European Union and Russia are both expected to transport some oxygen and pharmaceutical supplies.

As most of the companies are based in Germany, it caused a worry to the Indian Government. But later German Embassy made a statement that, “We will continue working with German partners to resolve supply chain bottlenecks faced by companies manufacturing Covid vaccine and medicines. India’s uninterrupted vaccine production capacity is central to the success of global vaccination efforts and global economic recovery.”

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