India’s oil demand worsened in the first half of May as large parts of the nation remained under local lockdowns to battle the world’s worst outbreak of Covid-19.

Sales of road transport fuels during May 1-15 dropped by a fifth from the previous month and about 28% from the same period in 2019, according to people familiar with preliminary data from the country’s three biggest retailers.

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