The Foreign Ministry of India expressed gratitude to Russia for providing medical care in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic. This was stated by the representative of the department arindam Bagchi in twitter .
“Thank you for the delivery of oxygen concentrators, artificial ventilation devices of light and other medicines, which arrived from Russia this morning on two aircraft,” said Bagchi. He stressed that Russia is “long-time and tested by the time” partner of the country.
The first deputy head of the Foreign Ministry of India Harsh Wardhan Schringla also reported that Moscow provided India the Mediupampi medicine, which can be applied to the treatment of COVID-19, RIA Novosti reports.
On April 29, two special equipment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia with the cargo of medical care arrived in India. Prior to this, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendre Moi, during which he promised to help New Delhi in combating COVID-19.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev said that India will receive a Russian vaccine from Coronavirus Satellite V “against the background of a difficult situation with COVID-19. According to him, the first doses will be delivered to the country for May 1.
In India, the daily increase in the infected coronavirus in the country hits records for several days in a row. Every four days there are more than a million people. According to the authorities, the country captured the “coronavirus storm”.