The Railways started operating Oxygen Express trains on April 24 this year amid the second wave of the Covid pandemic to provide respite to the states requiring medical oxygen.
An oxygen express train carrying 73.27 MT of LMO (liquid medical oxygen) from Odisha arrived at Irugur near here in the early hours of Sunday.
Oxygen relief by 421 Oxygen Expresses reached to 15 states namely Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra and others.
As many as 1,534 tankers have delivered oxygen to 39 cities in the country, it said.
A Railway Ministry official said that 359 Oxygen Expresses have completed their journey so far since April 24.
The Southern Railway has delivered 2114.21 Metric Tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) to Tamil Nadu and Kerala through 32 'Oxygen Express'
He said that 284 Oxygen Express have completed their journey so far and brought relief to various states.
A consignment carrying oxygen generators and 1000 ventilators on Sunday reached India from the UK
The Delhi Police has transferred the case of alleged black-marketing and hoarding of oxygen concentrators to Crime Branch
Forty-seven 'Oxygen Express' trains have completed their journey so far, it added, news agency ANI reported.
Normal life remained affected in many areas in Jammu and Kashmir on the ninth day on Friday with the imposition of the lockdown in the wake of an alarming surge in coronavirus cases
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Dr the Hon Roosevelt Skerrit, has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convey solidarity and condolences to the many families who have lost loved ones to COVID-19.
Record 49,058 new Covid cases, including 23,706 in Bengaluru were registered in a day across Karnataka while 328 patients succumbed to the virus
Currently, trains carrying 344 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen are on the run.
Oxygen Express carrying six tankers with 120 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen arrives at ICD Okhla in Delhi.
Congress on Monday demanded a judicial probe into 24 patients dying in a Chamarajanagar hospital allegedly due to lack of oxygen.
The second wave of the coronavirus has put huge pressure on the country's health system, with hospitals facing shortage of oxygen, medicines and equipment to treat COVID-19 patients, besides beds.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has handed over 75 oxygen cylinders to the Delhi government to help it augment oxygen supplies to various hospitals.
Since Apr 19, the railways' Oxygen Express trains have delivered a cumulative 510 tonnes of oxygen to UP, Maharashtra, Delhi and M
An Oxygen Express with 6 containers of medical oxygen reached Bhopal on Wednesday morning from Jharkhand's Bokaro.
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