{"id":413267,"date":"2021-05-03T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413267"},"modified":"2021-05-03T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T07:32:06","slug":"indias-fuel-sales-drop-in-april-on-covid-wave-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-sales-drop-in-april-on-covid-wave-3\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel sales drop in April on Covid wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The second wave of coronavirus sweeping the nation has pummelled fuel sales in April as local restrictions clamped to curb the spread of inflection stifled demand, preliminary data showed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of April, overall fuel demand is down by about 7 per cent from pre-Covid level of April 2019,&#8221; Arun Singh, Director for Marketing and Refineries at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), said. <\/p>\n<p>India was under one of the world&#8217;s severest lockdowns in April 2020, bringing to a halt almost all economic activity. Fuel sales had halved that month and so comparing current month sale to April 2020 will not throw a correct interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The second wave of coronavirus sweeping the nation has pummelled fuel sales in April as local restrictions clamped to curb the spread of inflection stifled demand, preliminary data showed. &#8220;At the end of April, overall fuel demand is down by about 7 per cent from pre-Covid level of April 2019,&#8221; Arun Singh, Director for Marketing and Refineries at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), said. India was under one of the world&#8217;s severest lockdowns in April 2020, bringing to a halt almost all economic activity. Fuel sales had halved that month and so comparing current month sale to April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}