Indian naval ship Airawat’s arrival to Indonesia carrying aid for the coronavirus-ravaged country has been delayed, External Affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Monday.
“There has been a delay in arrival of INS Airawat reaching Tanjung Priok, Indonesia, carrying 300 oxygen concentrators & 100 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen from India. Will keep you posted for further developments,” he said.
“India stands with its partners in the fight against Covid,” the minister added.
India has dispatched a naval ship with 300 oxygen concentrators and 100 metric tons of liquid medical oxygen to Indonesia, which is reeling under a wave of covid-19 infections fuelled by the delta variant.
Indonesia has been reporting record infections and covid-19 deaths in recent weeks with health experts calling the country Asia’s new epicentre for the virus, a Reuters report said. Fueled by the spread of the more virulent delta variant, Indonesia has reported more new coronavirus cases than any country in the world, data from the latest seven-day average from a Reuters tracker showed. It was second only to Brazil in terms of the number of deaths, the report said.
