French Air Force aircraft to bring ventilators, test kits to India tomorrow
New Delhi: France on Monday said it would provide India with 120 ventilators and 50,000 test kits to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic as India’s total number of covid-19 cases crossed 1.4 million.
A French Air Force aircraft will fly in the equipment and personnel on Tuesday. The Airbus A330 MRTT aircraft is equipped with a “Morpheus” kit that enables the transport of critically ill patients. French ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain will hand over the medical equipment to R.K. Jain, secretary general of the Indian Red Cross Society, on Tuesday.
The donation of the medical equipment and provision of technical expertise is in line with a recent announcement by President Emmanuel Macron, the French embassy said in a statement.
