Berlin:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated Sunday her government was preparing emergency help for India as the nation struggles to cope with an explosion in coronavirus infections.
“To the people of India I want to express my sympathy on the terrible suffering that Covid-19 has again brought over your communities,” Merkel stated in a message shared on Twitter by her spokesman Steffen Seibert.
“The fight against the pandemic is our common fight. Germany stands in solidarity with India and is urgently preparing a mission of support.”
There had been no instant specifics about the type of help Germany would present. But Der Spiegel weekly, citing unnamed sources, on Saturday stated Germany’s armed forces had received a request to assistance organise oxygen supplies.
With a new coronavirus variant spreading by means of its 1.3 billion people today, India has turn out to be the world’s major coronavirus hotspot in current days, reporting 3,49,691 new instances on Sunday alone.
Germany will from Monday impose new travel restrictions on passengers coming from India in a bid to curb in the spread of the new variant.
Wealthy Germany, with a world-class overall health method, has repeatedly helped other nations in require of health-related help in the course of the pandemic.
It has taken in Covid-19 patients from across Europe and sent health-related employees and ventilators abroad, like to Portugal in February.
Germany is presently itself grappling with a third wave of the pandemic that has brought intensive care units close to capacity.
Tough new nationwide restrictions came into impact at the weekend, like sweeping shutdowns and college closures for German regions with higher incidence prices.
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