The Gujarat government, which had written to the Centre to increase its Oxygen quota from 975 metric tonnes (MT) as it expects demand to touch 1,600MT by May 15, said that demand and consumption of oxygen has stabilized at 1,250MT. It anticipates that demand will remain at 1,250MT for the next four to five days and may even decrease by 100MT in a week.
In its affidavit filed in theGujarat high courtin response to the suo motu PIL on Covid-19, the gave details on demand and supply of oxygen between April 23 and May 7 and stated that Average daily demand and supply in Gujarat was 1,232.3 MT for the last two weeks.