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Mukesh Ambani sends oxygen from refineries to aid India's Covid-19 fight

Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd., which operates the world's biggest refining complex in western India, has started supplying oxygen from Jamnagar to Maharashtra at no cost

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & MD, RIL
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The western state will get 100 tons of the gas from Reliance, Eknath Shinde, urban development minister, said in a tweet

Debjit Chakraborty | Bloomberg
Mukesh Ambani is diverting oxygen produced at his refineries to help India battle a savage coronavirus outbreak that’s paralyzed the commercial capital as daily new infections spike by a record.

Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., which operates the world’s biggest refining complex in western India, has started supplying oxygen from Jamnagar to Maharashtra at no cost, according to a company official, who asked not to be identified due to internal policy. The western state will get 100 tons of the gas from Reliance, Eknath Shinde, urban development minister, said in a tweet.

India is in the grip of a second wave of Covid-19

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