Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a letter to PM Modi, said his state cannot spare any further oxygen to neighbouring states as they have already supplied their buffer stock and are now left with just 86 metric tonne.
Kerala will allow 40 metric tonnes of oxygen to Tamil Nadu till May 10, as per the May 6 decision of the Central Committee of Oxygen Allocation. After this ‘it will be practically impossible to allow oxygen to be taken out of the state considering the present situation’, Vijayan wrote to PM Modi.
The state will need 450 metric tonnes of oxygen by May 15 given the surge in cases. Vijayan has requested that the entire 219 MT oxygen produced in Kerala be allocated to the state itself.