Japan to provide India with aid to fight unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak
TOKYO, April 30 -- Japan will send humanitarian aid, including oxygen concentrators and lung ventilators, to India that is currently suffering from an unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Friday, reported Sputnik.
“In response to a request from the Indian government amid the sharp rise in the number of infections, the Japanese government has launched a procedure to provide the country with 300 oxygen concentrators and 300 lung ventilators. Our country finds it necessary to provide emergency aid to India - a friendly nation and our partner – to help it fight the coronavirus. We will consider further emergency measures to help India,” the ministry said in a statement.
India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases following the United States and registers currently more than 300,000 new ones per day.
More than 208,000 people have already died of the coronavirus in India.
The World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 150.12 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 3.16 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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