IAF intensifies efforts for relief as govt asks military to render maximum help

In the midst of the unrelenting spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) across the country and a frightening shortage of oxygen, hospital beds and medicines, the Indian Air Force on Saturday intensified its efforts for Covid-19 relief with its transport aircraft ferrying large oxygen containers to filling stations in different parts of the country even as defence minister Rajnath Singh directed the military and other wings of his ministry to extend all possible assistance to the civilian administration to tide over the current situation.

Among the many sorties that the IAF undertook on Saturday was a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft that flew from the Hindon airbase outside Delhi to Singapore’s Changi International Airport and returned to Panagarh in West Bengal with four cryogenic oxygen containers,