The Indian Navy has launched operation ‘Samudra Setu-II’ to bring oxygen-filled cryogenic containers to India from abroad as the country faces a severe shortage of medical oxygen in the wake of a massive spike in new Covid-19 cases.
- According to the Defence Ministry, INS Kolkata and INS Talwar were the first batch of ships that were immediately diverted for the task and entered the port of Manama in Bahrain on April 30. While INS Talwar, with 40 metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) embarked, is headed back to India.
- Operation Samudra Setu-I was launched in May 2020 as part of the Vande Bharat Mission to bring nearly 4,000 Indians back home from countries such as Maldives, Sri Lanka and Iran amid the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.
- That time the Operation was undertaken by the Indian Navy in close coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs, Union Home Ministry, Health Ministry and various other agencies of central and state governments.
