India on early Wednesday received a consignment of 15 ventilators, and 12,000 tablets of Favipiravir from Iceland as the country combat the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The information about the consignment was shared by Arindam Bagchi, Spokesperson Ministry of External Affairs, through his Twitter handle.
“Taking forward our warm and friendly ties. Welcome consignment of 15 Ventilators and 12,000 tablets of Favipiravir that arrived from Iceland early this morning,” tweeted Bagchi.
India recorded a single-day rise of 1,27,510 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in 51 days, taking the country’s infection tally to 2,81,75,044, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday.
India is currently dealing with a second COVID-19 wave that has swept through the nation, straining the country’s health infrastructure and overburdening frontline medical workers.
Many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany came to the forefront to give India medical help and assistance in the form of oxygen concentrators, ventilators, raw materials for vaccines, PPE kits.
Recently, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for South-East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh on Sunday issued a word of caution as India is witnessing a ‘Plateau’ in daily Covid-19 cases advising the people to get jabbed at the first available opportunity against the pandemic.
“Lesson learned from this surge is at no cost can let our guards down. We must take the #Covid-19 vaccine at the first available opportunity. While we can’t predict the next surge but we can prevent it, which we must,” said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh.
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Taking forward our warm & friendly ties. Welcome consignment of 15 Ventilators and 12000 tablets of Favipiravir that arrived from Iceland early this morning. pic.twitter.com/Q0zdZxoD70— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) June 1, 2021
