At the time when Delhi is fighting the acute scarcity of oxygen, vaccines and Covid-19 dugs, the Bharatiya Janata Party has held the Delhi govt answerable for oxygen disaster within the nationwide capital.
Addressing a press convention on Sunday night, Delhi BJP Chief Adesh Gupta mentioned, “Earlier on March 6, Central govt warned Delhi govt about the arrangements of procurement of oxygen but they didn’t do anything. But when they got pressure from hospitals, they (Delhi govt) on April 18 started looking for vendors for cryogenic oxygen tanker.”
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Training guns at the Arvind Kejriwal-led state government, Delhi BJP chief accussed Aam Aadmi Party MLAs of hoarding anti-Covid medicines. “At a time when individuals of Delhi are gasping for breath & BJP, RSS & different organisations are serving to individuals, Delhi Govt’s ministers & MLAs are concerned in black-marketing & hoarding of medicines & oxygen. Delhi Govt & AAP are answerable for this disaster,” Adesh Gupta said, as quoted by ANI.
Meanwhile, the national capital lodged 13,336 new cases of Coronavirus and 273 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the the number of total cases stands at
13,23,567 while the death toll has been pushed to 19,344.
With 14,738 patients discharged yesterday, the total recoveries in the national capital are now 12,17,991 while there are 86,232 active cases in the national capital. The positivity rate stood at 231.67 per cent.
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