No COVID-19 Deaths In Maharashtra Due To Oxygen Shortage, Says Health Minister

Rajesh Tope said the state was administering around 3.5 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses per day, while it had the capacity to inoculate 10 lakh people per day.

Maharashtra faced a shortage of medical oxygen but it did not report any COVID-19 death due to it, state health minister Rajesh Tope said on Friday. He was speaking to reporters at the inauguration of a hostel of the National Cold Chain Research Centre. "There are no deaths in the state due to shortage of medical oxygen. Such deaths may have occurred in other states," he said. The Union government had, on Tuesday, told Parliament that no state or Union territory had reported any death due to oxygen shortage during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a statement that had come in for heavy criticism from the opposition as well as health activists.