Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured the full support of the center to the Madhya Pradesh government to meet the requirements of oxygen, Remdesivir and other resources to meet the COVID-19 pandemic, the prime minister’s office said.
Prime Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a telephone conversation with Modi this morning regarding measures to control the spread of the viral infection, a CMO official said.
The Prime Minister assured Chouhan of all assistance with regard to oxygen and Remdesivir supply and other health services to increase the COVID-19 cases, he said.
The Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra governments have earlier approached the Railway Ministry to investigate whether liquid medical oxygen tanks can be moved through the railway network.
On Sunday, the Railways said they would run ‘Oxygen Express’ trains for the next few days to transport liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders across the country.
Chouhan later thanked Railway Minister Piyush Goyal for accepting his government’s request.
Madhya Pradesh has 12,248 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, the highest one-day rise since the outbreak of the infection last year, raising the score to 4,088,080.
The virus also claimed the lives of another 66 people in the state, pushing the death toll to 4,557.
This month, the state has so far recorded 1,12,569 new cases COVID-19 and 571 deaths due to the disease, according to official figures.
Source: Telangana Today