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Covid: RIL in talks to buy tankers for transport of liquid medical oxygen

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases being reported daily in the past few days

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Several states including Maharashtra, home to the financial capital Mumbai, have issued advisories to hospitals to use their oxygen supplies with care.

Shally Seth Mohile Mumbai
As India’s health infrastructure gasps for oxygen, Reliance Industries is in talks with VRV Asia Pacific, a Chart Group company, and a few others to purchase tankers for transporting liquid medical oxygen (LMO), said a top executive at VRV.
 
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases being reported daily in the past few days. Hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
 
Reliance is likely to get tankers that can hold and transport up to 40,000 litres of liquid oxygen to large