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Canada sending desperately needed medical supplies to India
BY , May 5, 2021 9:25 PM - REPORT AN ERRORCanada is sending desperately needed medical supplies to India as the COVID-19 pandemic there spirals out of control.
Global Affairs Canada says a shipment will include 25-thousand vials of the antiviral drug remdesivir and up to 350 ventilators from its emergency stockpile.
The Canadian military will airlift the supplies to the subcontinent.
India's COVID-19 deaths reached a new high of three-thousand, 780 in the last 24-hours as daily infections rose by more than 382,000.
Foreign Policy CAN on Twitter:
Minister Garneau and his Indian counterpart @DrSJaishankar had a warm virtual meeting at the #G7UK. The Ministers discussed the challenges both countries are facing due to #COVID19. Minister Garneau reiterated Canada’s solidarity with the Indian people.
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