Mumbai: Even because more restrictions related to Covid-19 have diminished, the state has decided that “total locking” will be rediscovered if the requirements for medical oxygen rose to 700 million tons (MT) per day.
This threshold rate to bring back restrictions removed by the State Cabinet on Wednesday while approving the easing of restrictions from August 15.
At present, the state has the capacity to produce 1,300MT liquid medical oxygen every day and the government prepares an additional 450 medical class oxygen plants, which 141 has started operating.
Certain units also increase their supply.
“With all this, our production can increase up to 1,700-2,000 MT,” said the Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope said.
Tope said, “At the top of the second wave, our oxygen requirements have touched 1,800mt and we have to carry oxygen from other countries too.
According to the projection, the third wave peak will be 1.5 times higher than the second.
Projected that oxygen requirements can reach 3,800 MT per day and therefore the decision that restrictions will be brought back once.
Oxygen requirements touch 700mt.
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“In the third wave we cannot rely on other countries for help because they are also possible in difficult situations,” he said.
Officials say this is one lesson from the second wave.
“The country is delayed in locking during the second wave.
Light restrictions are charged on April 5, almost 1.5 months after the beginning of the second wave.
This decision (to introduce the threshold to bring the sidewalk) was taken to ensure that there was no need to build a political consensus once the case began to surge , “said an official.