<p>India is working on requests from Italy, Iran and some other nations in its neighbourhood for assistance to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.</p>.<p>New Delhi received requests for gloves, masks, feeding and infusion pumps, defibrillators and other protective gears from Italy and Iran, which are now the two worst Covid-19 affected countries outside China – the “Ground Zero” of what has now been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>.<p>Raveesh Kumar, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said that the Government had received the requests from other countries and the requests were now “under process”.</p>.<p>He also said that India had last month sent a consignment of medical equipment to Wuhan in China to help the neighbouring communist country to deal with the outbreak.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-karnatakas-suspected-covid-19-patient-dies-799686.html" target="_blank"><strong>Follow live updates of coronavirus outbreak here</strong></a></p>.<p>New Delhi also decided to provide the neighbouring Indian Ocean archipelago three-month-stock of essential medicines following a request made by the Government of Maldives, making a special exemption from the restrictions it placed on the export of medicines from India in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.</p>
<p>India is working on requests from Italy, Iran and some other nations in its neighbourhood for assistance to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.</p>.<p>New Delhi received requests for gloves, masks, feeding and infusion pumps, defibrillators and other protective gears from Italy and Iran, which are now the two worst Covid-19 affected countries outside China – the “Ground Zero” of what has now been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>.<p>Raveesh Kumar, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said that the Government had received the requests from other countries and the requests were now “under process”.</p>.<p>He also said that India had last month sent a consignment of medical equipment to Wuhan in China to help the neighbouring communist country to deal with the outbreak.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-karnatakas-suspected-covid-19-patient-dies-799686.html" target="_blank"><strong>Follow live updates of coronavirus outbreak here</strong></a></p>.<p>New Delhi also decided to provide the neighbouring Indian Ocean archipelago three-month-stock of essential medicines following a request made by the Government of Maldives, making a special exemption from the restrictions it placed on the export of medicines from India in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.</p>
