{"id":100637,"date":"2020-04-02T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100637"},"modified":"2020-04-02T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T22:15:57","slug":"covid-19-crisis-indias-navy-ships-medical-teams-on-standby-for-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/02\/covid-19-crisis-indias-navy-ships-medical-teams-on-standby-for-neighbours\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 crisis: India&#8217;s navy ships, medical teams on standby for neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>CourtesyDNA India<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>They are on standby for deployment in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan &amp; Afghanistan if the situation worsens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of its neighbourhood first policy, six Indian Navy ships are on standby for assistance to neighbouring countries over COVID-19 crisis. Along with navy ships, top sources told WION that five medical teams are on standby for deployment in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan &amp; Afghanistan if the situation worsens.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 30, India sent medical supplies to Nepal. Sources said that Dornier &amp; Mi 17 were used to position medical load at Gorakhpur on Monday &amp; the load was thereafter taken to Nepal by road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the month of March, Indian PM Modi had proposed a SAARC meet on the COVID-19 crisis via video conference in which all SAARC heads of state\/govt participated barring the Pakistani PM Imran Khan who was represented at a junior level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India had announced the formation of a coronavirus emergency fund with a contribution of $10 million in which all SAARC countries barring Pakistan has announced contribution.&nbsp; Sri Lanka contributed $ 5 million, Bangladesh contributed $ 1.5 million, Nepal $ 1 million, Afghanistan $ 1 million, Maldives $ 200,000 and Bhutan $ 100,000 taking the total amount in the COVID-19 Emergency Fund to USD 18.3 million. New Delhi also said, that its rapid response team are at disposal of any SAARC Member country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the SAARC leaders meeting, health officials of countries have had a video conference and commerce ministry officials will soon meet via the same format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an early responder, India evacuated several South Asian nationals stranded in Wuhan, which was once the epicentre of the COVID crisis. India got back 23 Bangladeshi, 9 Maldivian from Wuhan and 2 Sri Lankans and One Nepali from quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess off the coast of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CourtesyDNA India They are on standby for deployment in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan &amp; Afghanistan if the situation worsens. As part of its neighbourhood first policy, six Indian Navy ships are on standby for assistance to neighbouring countries over COVID-19 crisis. Along with navy ships, top sources told WION that five medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}