New Delhi records a record number of injuries worldwide, and the European Union sends aid

Emirati solidarity and support for India in facing the challenges of "Covid-19"

A health worker pulls a bed carrying a patient with "Corona" outside the injured ward of Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in New Delhi.

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The UAE affirmed that it stands with the friendly Republic of India in the face of the "Covid-19" pandemic and supports its tireless efforts to address the exacerbation of the threat of the pandemic, and its full solidarity with it in light of the current health conditions it is going through. Yesterday, India recorded 350 thousand new cases of the Coronavirus. The novelty within 24 hours in a world record, and the local authorities decided to extend the isolation measures in the capital, New Delhi for one week, at a time when the European Commission announced the activation of the European Union’s civil protection mechanism, and said it would send supplies of oxygen and medicines to New Delhi in response to a request from India to contain the outbreak. The accelerating epidemic on its soil, while more than a billion doses of anti-virus vaccines were given in the world.

In detail, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed in its statement yesterday, its condolences to the government and friendly people of India for the victims of the pandemic, and its wishes for a speedy recovery for all the injured and the safety of the Indian people.

The Ministry affirmed the depth of the historical and strategic friendship between the UAE and the Republic of India, which is based on solid and solid foundations of mutual respect, understanding, cooperation and common interests, expressing its hope that India will be able to overcome this difficult period as soon as possible.

With India registering 350,000 new infections within one day in a world record number, the giant country of 1.3 billion people is unable to control the epidemic boom.

And 2,767 people have died in India, as a result of the Corona virus within 24 hours, in a record number nationwide.

In the face of this "storm", according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the local authorities extended the closure in effect for one week in the capital, New Delhi.

Modi urged citizens to be vaccinated and to exercise caution, saying that the "storm" of injuries had shook the country.

And the head of the metropolitan government, Arvind Kejriwal, announced that "the ravages of the Corona virus are continuing and do not stop."

The rise in the toll comes while the health system is struggling to cope with the massive increase in the number of injuries, which leads to overcrowding in hospitals and severe shortages of oxygen and medicines, and the families of patients request help on social media.

In Brussels, the European Commission announced the activation of the European Union's civil protection mechanism, and said that it would send supplies of oxygen and medicines to India, where the Coronavirus pandemic had spread, in response to a request from New Delhi.

"I am disturbed by the epidemiological situation in India," UNHCR Chair Ursula von der Leyen wrote on Twitter yesterday.

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"The European Commission is already coordinating with the European Union countries that are ready to urgently provide oxygen and drugs," the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Janez Linarkic wrote on Twitter.

For its part, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that her government is preparing to provide urgent assistance to India.

"To the Indian people, I want to express my full sympathy for this terrible suffering that (Covid-19) is causing again to the population," she said.

The detection of the "Indian" transgender in Belgium, Switzerland and Greece raises concern in Europe.

France has put in place a new protocol to stop the arrival of the mutated copies.

And it decided that travelers coming from five dangerous classified countries, namely Brazil, India, South Africa, Argentina and Chile, would be subjected to anti-virus testing upon their arrival in France, in addition to testing for "Covid-19" before the flight, provided that they would be subjected to isolation for a period of 10 days.

In Brazil, too, the number of monthly deaths exceeded a new record, as it reached 67,977 deaths from disease on Saturday since the beginning of April.

Globally, the Covid-19 epidemic has claimed more than three million lives - at least 3,100,659 million - since it emerged in China in late December 2019.

In general, vaccination campaigns are accelerating in the world, with at least one billion, two million, 938 thousand and 540 doses given in 207 countries or regions, according to official sources.

In Amman, the Jordanian Minister of State for Media Affairs, Sakher Dudin, said yesterday that his country hopes to reach a "safe summer" and cancel all kinds of prohibitions and closures on the first of next July.

"The government has a long-term plan that includes opening up entire sectors, canceling all kinds of embargoes and closures, returning to normal life and reaching a safe summer," Dudin, who is the government's official spokesman, said in a press briefing. "This plan is hoped to start on the first of next July."

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