{"id":121127,"date":"2021-05-03T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121127"},"modified":"2021-05-03T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:09:56","slug":"britain-to-send-1000-more-ventilators-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121127","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Britain to send 1,000 more ventilators to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6f396738c44ec6e4de9a78f15ffedeabb92398bc\/0_0_1280_768\/master\/1280.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=147cd0463f7442fab6d6fcc48d79462f\" alt=\"Ventilators from the UK arriving in Delhi, which is under lockdown.\"\/><figcaption>Ventilators from the UK arriving in Delhi, which is under lockdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, May 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Britain will send another 1,000 ventilators to India, the government said, stepping up its support as India&#8217;s healthcare system struggles to cope with a huge surge in cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/india-covid-19-cases-death-toll-record-lockdown-14731580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 300,000 daily cases for more than 10 days straight<\/a>, leaving hospitals, morgues and crematoriums overwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British government had previously agreed to send 600 medical devices, including ventilators and oxygen concentrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This support will help urgently meet some of India&#8217;s acute needs, particularly oxygen for patients,&#8221; Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement. &#8220;We are determined to help our Indian friends in their hour of need.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top British health officials have also spoken to their Indian counterparts to offer advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other nations, including the United States, Germany and Pakistan, are also providing support as the number of infections daily in India reached 392,488, with a total death toll of over 215,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest support from Britain comes ahead of a call between prime ministers Boris Johnson and Narendra Modi, scheduled for Tuesday, which will look at deepening bilateral ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting replaces an in-person visit Johnson was due to make in April, but had to cancel due to the surge in infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi&#8217;s government is reluctant to impose a national lockdown, but nearly 10 Indian states and union territories have imposed some form of restrictions. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, May 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Britain will send another 1,000 ventilators to India, the government said, stepping up its support as India&#8217;s healthcare system struggles to cope with a huge surge in cases of COVID-19. India has reported&nbsp;more than 300,000 daily cases for more than 10 days straight, leaving hospitals, morgues and crematoriums overwhelmed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121129,"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\/121127"}],"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=121127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}