{"id":413345,"date":"2021-05-04T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413345"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T04:41:13","slug":"us-uk-fly-in-aid-to-india-to-help-fight-second-wave-of-covid-19-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-uk-fly-in-aid-to-india-to-help-fight-second-wave-of-covid-19-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"US, UK fly in aid to India to help fight second wave of covid-19 infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Fresh consignments of aid\u2014remdesivir from the US and 1,000 ventilators from the UK\u2014arrived in India overnight Monday even as India battles the brutal second wave of covid-19 infections that has brought the country\u2019s health infrastructure to breaking point. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft carrying 125,000 vials of remdesivir from the US arrived on Sunday, officials said. The drug, found effective in the treatment of some seriously ill covid-19 cases, is in short supply in India. <\/p>\n<p>In the UK, foreign secretary Dominic Raab wrote in a statement posted on Twitter: \u201cWe are working closely with India to deliver the equipment they need to tackle this deadly wave of coronavirus. We are sending 1,000 surplus ventilators to support our Indian friends and to help save lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Fresh consignments of aid\u2014remdesivir from the US and 1,000 ventilators from the UK\u2014arrived in India overnight Monday even as India battles the brutal second wave of covid-19 infections that has brought the country\u2019s health infrastructure to breaking point. The aircraft carrying 125,000 vials of remdesivir from the US arrived on Sunday, officials said. The drug, found effective in the treatment of some seriously ill covid-19 cases, is in short supply in India. In the UK, foreign secretary Dominic Raab wrote in a statement posted on Twitter: \u201cWe are working closely with India to deliver the equipment they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}