By: Express Web Desk|New Delhi |
Updated: April 16, 2020 8: 19: 47 pm
Cops personnel on responsibility being signed in Panchkula Thursday.
As numerous as 3,336 Indians have actually been infected with the novel coronavirus overseas, while 25 Indians have died due to COVID-19 abroad, sources in the government stated Thursday.
Around 35,000 foreign nationals from 48 nations have been left from India in the middle of the coronavirus break out, the official sources stated.
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Earlier this week, on Monday, the Supreme Court had actually declined to pass interim directions on petitions advising it to ask the Centre to bring back Indians “stranded” abroad.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, which heard a batch of petitions in this regard, asked Indians in other countries to “stay where they are”, adding that a direction to bring them back might compromise the travel restriction imposed by the Centre to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
‘ India getting 6.5 lakh screening packages from China’
On the other hand, government sources likewise said India was set to get 6.5 lakh testing kits from China on Thursday, and more were gotten out of South Korea. United States, UK, Malaysia, France and Canada have also been approached for testing packages.
Just Recently, the Indian Council of Medical Research Study (ICMR), under the scanner over hold-up in procurement of testing sets for COVID-19, had released a tender asking Central PSUs to serve as Procurement Agency for vital supplies connected to coronavirus testing. The ICMR welcomed techno-commercial deals from Central PSUs, asking interested celebrations to send offers by April 16.
‘ BRICS foreign ministers conference later on this month’
Sources in the federal government Thursday said a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) foreign ministers conference was being planned later this month on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC) leaders had actually held a summit by means of video-conference to talk about the method forward on battling the coronavirus crisis. India had proposed production of a COVID-19 emergency fund, for which it devoted “an initial deal of US$ 10 million”.
On April 8, Pakistan had boycotted a video conference of trade authorities from the SAARC countries, stating such meetings could only work if spearheaded by the group’s secretariat instead of India.
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