Coronavirus live updates: Jharkhand cancels Class 10, 12 state board exams

Harsh Vardhan Shringla, foreign secretary

The government is aiming at creating a captive production capacity of nearly 5,000 tonnes of medical oxygen per day at hospitals in the next 6-7 months. While the Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants being set up by the Centre will have the capacity to generate around 2,500 tonnes per day, the ones being set up by the state government will create similar production capacity.

Bihar on Wednesday drastically revised its death toll upwards as the state's health department put the total number of fatalities caused by the pandemic at 9,429.According to the department, which had till the previous day stated the number of deaths to be under 5,500, as many as 3,951 deaths have been added to the toll after verification.

Mizoram's case tally reached 14,534, an official said.