{"id":120258,"date":"2021-04-26T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120258"},"modified":"2021-04-26T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:13:50","slug":"germany-will-send-oxygen-medical-aid-to-india-to-help-in-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120258","title":{"rendered":"Germany will send oxygen, medical aid to India to help in COVID-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.hindustantimes.com\/img\/2021\/04\/26\/550x309\/2021-04-22T163326Z_482446135_RC241N9B64J3_RTRMADP_3_BALKANS-EU-BORDERS-GERMANY_1619408510470_1619408527532.JPG\" alt=\"German foreign minister Heiko Mass said Germany would do its utmost to help India overcome the emergency.(Reuters)\"\/><figcaption>German foreign minister Heiko Mass <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Germany will send oxygen and medical aid to India in the coming days to help it tackle its COVID-19 crisis, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is suffering from a spike in coronavirus infections, with the number of cases surging by 349,691 in the past 24 hours, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/india-covid-19-cases-set-new-global-record-us-readies-help-14691116\" target=\"_blank\">fourth straight day of record peaks<\/a>. Hospitals are turning away patients after running out of medical oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The second wave is currently rolling over India with unprecedented power. It was right that we acted quickly to stop the entry of the new mutation in Germany,&#8221; Maas told the Rheinische Post newspaper.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany has classified India as a coronavirus high incidence area and also put the country on a separate warning list for coronavirus variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Monday onwards, Germans arriving from India will only be allowed to enter the country with a negative test result and will then have to begin a 14-day quarantine. Foreign travellers coming from India will no longer be allowed to enter Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass said Germany would do its utmost to help India overcome the emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A German defence ministry spokeswoman said the foreign ministry had asked the military to look into providing a mobile oxygen production facility as well as support to transport other emergency and relief goods to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday expressed her &#8220;sympathy over the terrible suffering&#8221; that the pandemic had brought to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Germany stands in solidarity with India and is urgently preparing a mission of support,&#8221; Merkel said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Commission has also said it aims to send oxygen and medicines to India after receiving a request from Delhi. Britain and the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/us-to-provide-vaccine-components-medical-supplies-as-india-14693560\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>\u00a0are also sending assistance including medical equipment. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Germany will send oxygen and medical aid to India in the coming days to help it tackle its COVID-19 crisis, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said. India is suffering from a spike in coronavirus infections, with the number of cases surging by 349,691 in the past 24 hours, the\u00a0fourth straight day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}