{"id":128072,"date":"2021-04-29T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=128072"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:38:36","slug":"china-says-it-is-working-overtime-to-supply-25000-oxygen-concentrators-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/china-says-it-is-working-overtime-to-supply-25000-oxygen-concentrators-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"China says it is working overtime to supply 25,000 oxygen concentrators to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China on Wednesday said its medical suppliers were working overtime to supply 25,000 oxygen concentrators ordered by Indian traders amid a massive surge in Covid-19 infections in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sun Weidong, China&#8217;s Ambassador to India, tweeted that Chinese medical suppliers are working overtime on orders from India, at least 25000 orders for oxygen concentrators in recent days. Cargo planes are under plan for medical supplies. Chinese customs will facilitate relevant process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chinese medical suppliers are working overtime on orders from India, at least 25000 orders for oxygen concentrators in recent days. Cargo planes are under plan for medical supplies. Chinese customs will facilitate relevant process.<\/p>&mdash; Embassy of The People&#39;s Republic of China in India (@China_Amb_India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/China_Amb_India\/status\/1387401477010849792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s statement comes days after the country&#8217;s state-run Sichuan Airlines had suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders&#8217; efforts to procure oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bilateral relations between China and India have been severely strained since April last year, when the Chinese troops transgressed the Line of Actual Control \u2013 the de-facto border \u2013 in Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese tweet came a day after the United States President Joe Biden said the country was sending a whole series of help including providing for those Remdesivir and other drugs that India needed for its battle against the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several countries including France, Germany, Britain, Australia, Singapore and Israel are sending medical aid to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/oxygen-allocation-state-centre\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/oxygen-allocation-state-centre\/\">Oxygen demand up by 67%, 22 states seek help now compared to 12 states 10 days ago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fresh wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has roiled India in recent weeks, leaving Indian healthcare system in splits with hospital beds, medicines and oxygen in short supply.&nbsp;In a record single-day spike, a total of 3,79,257 people tested positive for Covid-19 in last 24 hours, taking the total Covid tally of India to 1.83 crore cases. The death toll has crossed two lakh following 3,645 fresh fatalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s statement comes days after the country&#8217;s state-run Sichuan Airlines had suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders&#8217; efforts to procure oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[1303,92143],"yst_prominent_words":[8546,8028,7412,5087,90276,3704,3887,8095,53758,15942,21244,11699,24386,8017],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/04\/29153256\/india-oxygen-covid-19-shortage-crisis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128072"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=128072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=128072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->