WHO Warns Oxygen Shortages As Covid-19 Case Hits Millions
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As the world is still swarmed with the COvid-19 pandemic, the number of the worldwide case are still increasing which are getting close to 10 million marks.
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World Health Organization said that there will be soon lacking oxygen concentrators due to the increasing number of patients in the worldwide. As it is rising about 1 million cases per week. WHich has pushed the oxygen demand to 88,000 large cylinder per day or 620,000 cubic metres of oxygen?
The health agency has purchased 14,000 oxygen concentrators from manufactures and plans to send them to 120 countries in the coming week. Further 170,000 concentrators valued at around US $100 million (S $139 million) will be available over the next six months.