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May 05, 2021All India's delegation to the G7 of foreign ministers, which is taking place in London these days, is in solitary confinement after two of its members tested positive for coronavirus. Skynews reports. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who had a bilateral meeting yesterday with British Interior Minister Priti Patel, is not positive about Covid.

Skynews underlines that the screening of the various delegations is part of the precautionary health security measures planned for this London ministerial meeting of the G7: the first face-to-face after more than a year of summits and virtual meetings imposed by the Covid pandemic. The Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in the past few hours, had also met the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in a bilateral session on the sidelines of the meeting. India was invited by the British government - which holds the rotating presidency - among the guest countries outside the G7 for today's second day of the summit, together with Australia, South Korea, South Africa and Brunei, current president of the 'Asean.

Second day - to which at this point Jaishankar intervenes via video link, unlike the other participants (Minister Luigi Di Maio for Italy) - which started this morning at the Lancaster House with issues such as the "open society under discussion. ", free information, arbitrary detentions in the world, freedom of religion, cyber governance, online propaganda (with the announced rapid response mechanisms to disinformation attributed to both Moscow and Beijing), climate change, cooperation on post Covid and vaccines, the sustainable revival of the economy, the fight against hunger in the world. Without forgetting the education of girls or help for female employment in developing countries,a chapter for which London has already announced a common commitment to allocate $ 15 billion over the next 5 years.

"Yesterday I was informed of the risk that I have been exposed to possible cases of Covid. As a precautionary measure and also out of respect for others, I have decided to carry out my commitments in virtual mode. And this will be also the case of today's G7 meeting ". Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar tweeted after two members of India's London delegation were found.