Talebula Kate
7 May, 2021, 6:15 pm
The Fiji Times staff display the personal protective equipment that was provided by the New Zealand High Commission. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA
The New Zealand High Commission recently provided personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Fijian Media Association to help members of the media in their work during this pandemic.
The equipment will protect and assist media personnel as they go about in their daily work to gather in information for public consumption in the fight against COVID-19.
The Fiji Times Editor-in-Chief, Fred Wesley said:” We acknowledge the assistance by the New Zealand High Commission. We appreciate the gesture, the support and the work behind the scenes to organise this. We also appreciate the work of the Fiji Media Association, in co-ordinating delivery. Vinaka.”
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Indian Youth Congress (IYC) is the frontal youth wing of the Indian National Congress Party, the main opposition party in India. It’s formed a 1,000-strong humanitarian operation to deliver a response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis in India.
It comes after the New Zealand High Commission tweeted a desperate plea for oxygen yesterday but then deleted the tweet and later apologised for it.
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson told 1 NEWS in a statement: The tweet was issued in error on the New Zealand High Commission’s Twitter account. It has since been withdrawn and we have apologised, including to the Indian government, for the misunderstanding it may have caused.
Ms Ardern told TVNZ s
Breakfast the strange public request from the High Commission for more oxygen was for a local staff member who lived on the compound and had become ill with COVID-19.
She said the complex itself had been in lockdown a better part of the year and many New Zealand staff had already been sent home to New Zealand.
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It comes after a bizarre series of events on Sunday (NZ time) when the New Zealand High Commission in India sent out a tweet asking the youth leader of India s main opposition party for help supplying oxygen.
New Delhi: The government and the Congress were embroiled in a spat on Sunday over the supply of oxygen to two foreign missions in New Delhi, with external affairs minister S Jaishankar accusing the main opposition party of indulging in “cheap publicity”
Caught in political row, New Zealand embassy apologises for sending oxygen SOS to Youth Cong
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The High Commission of New Zealand in New Delhi was caught in a political row after it sent out an SOS Tweet for medical oxygen in light coronavirus crisis. The urgent appeal was made to Indian Youth Congress leader BV Srinivas who has grabbed national attention for helping thousands affected by Covid-19 pandemic.
But the embassy deleted the tweets within minutes and apologised subsequently. This led to widespread speculation on social media that the High Commission removed the SoS request after the intervention of Indian diplomatic establishment.