{"id":121491,"date":"2021-05-05T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121491"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:35:13","slug":"covid-19-scare-at-g7-meeting-after-indian-delegates-test-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121491","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 scare at G7 meeting after Indian delegates test positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/7DQLE3NYABKDXC5BNP3WNTBTAI.jpg\" alt=\"Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives as G7 foreign ministers meet at Lancaster House in London, Britain, May 5, 2021. REUTERS\/Hannah McKay\/Pool\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Britain&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; India&#8217;s entire delegation to the Group of Seven summit in London is self-isolating after two of its members tested positive for COVID-19, the British government said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Two delegates tested positive so the entire delegation is now self isolating,&#8221; a British official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The meeting had been enabled by a strict set of COVID protocols, including daily testing of all delegates,&#8221; the British official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar did not test positive for the virus. Jaishankar was pictured meeting British interior minister Priti Patel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegation will be attempting to meet virtually, Pike added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, British vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was unaware of a report that delegates from G7 countries were self-isolating because of a COVID-19 scare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is not a G7 member but was invited by Britain to this week&#8217;s summit, along with Australia, South Africa and South Korea. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab LONDON, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; India&#8217;s entire delegation to the Group of Seven summit in London is self-isolating after two of its members tested positive for COVID-19, the British government said on Wednesday. &#8220;Two delegates tested positive so the entire delegation is now self isolating,&#8221; a British official said. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121493,"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\/121491"}],"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=121491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}