{"id":413706,"date":"2021-05-05T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413706"},"modified":"2021-05-05T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:54:50","slug":"indigo-airlifts-2717-oxygen-concentrators-from-5-countries-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-airlifts-2717-oxygen-concentrators-from-5-countries-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo airlifts 2,717 oxygen concentrators from 5 countries to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has airlifted 2,717 oxygen concentrators from Thailand, China, Qatar, Hong Kong and Singapore to India amid the COVID-19 pandemic&#8217;s second wave in the country, the airline said on Wednesday. In total, the airline has transported 4,142 oxygen concentrators &#8212; weighing about 72,461 kg &#8212; within India or from outside India, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>India has been badly hit by the second wave of the coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a severe shortage of oxygen, drugs, equipment and beds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As many as 2,717 have been airlifted from Thailand, China, Qatar, Hong Kong, and Singapore to India, while 1,425 oxygen concentrators have been transported domestically between 36 airports,&#8221; the airline&#8217;s statement noted.<\/p>\n<p>A massive load of other medical supplies has also been flown in on IndiGo flights to support the country, it mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>A record 3,780 fresh COVID-19 fatalities were registered in a single day in India taking the death toll to 2,26,188, while 3,82,315 new coronavirus infections were recorded in the country, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>With the fresh cases, the COVID-19 infection tally in the country climbed to 2,06,65,148.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has airlifted 2,717 oxygen concentrators from Thailand, China, Qatar, Hong Kong and Singapore to India amid the COVID-19 pandemic&#8217;s second wave in the country, the airline said on Wednesday. In total, the airline has transported 4,142 oxygen concentrators &#8212; weighing about 72,461 kg &#8212; within India or from outside India, it said in a statement. India has been badly hit by the second wave of the coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a severe shortage of oxygen, drugs, equipment and beds. &#8220;As many as 2,717 have been airlifted from Thailand, China, Qatar, Hong Kong, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413706","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}