India on Friday received a consignment of 600 oxygen concentrators, 50 ventilators and other medical supplies from Switzerland as the country continues its fight against COVID-19, informed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
In an official statement, as per reports by Xinhua news, the Swiss government said that the aircraft which left the Zurich airport on Thursday for New Delhi, carried 13 tonnes of medical equipment worth close to 3 million Swiss francs (USD3.28 million).
The equipment, donated by the Swiss Humanitarian Aid and the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, will be distributed to Indian hospitals in coordination with the Indian Red Cross and the Ministry of Health. The statement also mentioned that body bags were sent alongside oxygen concentrators and respirators.
On Friday, India again registered a record increase in the number of single-day Covid-19 cases. With 4,14,188 fresh Covid-19 cases recorded in the last 24 hours, the country's overall infection tally now stood at 2,14,91,598, the second-highest in the world after the US.
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