Coronavirus India Live Updates: India data over 3 lakh new Covid-19 instances for second day in row

A Covid-19 affected person outdoors LNJP hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. (Express Photo: Tashi Tobgyal)
Delhi, UP, Gujarat, Haryana oxygen demand outstrips provide
With 4 of the states worst hit by Covid battling a vital shortfall between demand and provide of oxygen of their hospitals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed officers throughout a high-level assembly Thursday to ramp up manufacturing and the Union Home Ministry ordered all states to strictly abide by its distribution plan amid stories of some seizing provides meant for others.

As the nation reported a document 3,14,835 new instances — the best single-day determine for any nation because the pandemic started — and a pair of,104 deaths within the final 24 hours, figures obtained by The Indian Express present that Delhi, UP, Gujarat and Haryana face extreme shortfalls (see chart)  within the provide of oxygen.
Second wave won’t have an effect on huge reform push, says Nirmala Sitharaman
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday mentioned the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic won’t have an effect on the institutional reforms, together with the disinvestment plans outlined within the Budget, though the main focus proper now was to take steps in direction of assembly the “immediate requirement of saving lives”.
Speaking on the first of a collection of on-line, agenda-setting debates organised by The Indian Express and Financial Times, the Finance Minister mentioned the scenario in 2020 (when a nationwide lockdown was introduced) and the scenario now are very completely different. “Micro containment zones would be the way forward (now),” she mentioned.