WHO gives 4,000 oxygen concentrators to India |
The World Health Organization (WHO) will provide 4,000 oxygen concentrators to India as the country experiences a huge surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. A WHO spokesperson said the oxygen concentrators will be delivered to the affected states in India. Also, over 2,600 WHO experts from various programs (polio, TB, NTD, etc) have been redeployed to work with health authorities at all levels to respond to the pandemic, the spokesman added. Various countries are providing assistance to India as it battles a deadly second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. A shipment of urgently needed oxygen, medicine, and equipment will be delivered over the coming days by EU member states to India through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, which is coordinated by the Emergency Response Coordination Centre of the European Commission. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has also said that his country will send 500 ventilators, one million surgical masks, 500 thousand P2 and N95 masks, 100thousand goggles, 100 thousand pairs of gloves and 20,000 face shields.
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