2021-05-13T14:23:00+01:00
Volga-Dnepr has delivered over 200 tonnes of vital medical equipment, including oxygen-storing containers to various parts of India.
Volga-Dnepr operated three charter flights from China, Ireland, and Germany. The equipment also included concentrators and cryogenic containers and were delivered onboard AN-124-100 and IL-76TD-90VD aircraft.
Ekaterina Andreeva, commercial director of Volga-Dnepr, said that the company worked with its customers
Chapman Freeborn, Maersk Special Project Logistics and
Air Charter Service India to organise the charter flights in a short time frame.
Yulia Celetaria, global healthcare director at Volga-Dnepr Group, added: “We hope that our efforts and additional medical supplies will help India in meeting the oxygen crisis.”
As COVID-19 infections engulf India, Modi government fails to guarantee free vaccines
The coronavirus catastrophe continues to worsen across India, with the country reporting 3,645 new fatalities yesterday, a new high in the number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day. India also recorded 379,257 new cases, another world record in daily infections, taking its overall total to more than 18 million confirmed cases.
Hospitals and morgues throughout the country, including in megacities like Delhi and Mumbai, are overwhelmed. Despite these deadly conditions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has refused to guarantee free coronavirus vaccines.
People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Wealthy people in India have been escaping the country on private jets and commercial airfares are skyrocketing as the country’s COVID-19 crisis worsens and international borders snap shut.
Indian tycoons and rich families have reportedly fled India for boltholes across Europe, the Middle East and Indian Ocean destinations such as the Maldives, which will ban flights from India on Tuesday, sparking a last-minute rush.
Australia will suspend passenger flights from India until May 15, the federal government announced on Tuesday, and Canada, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and the UK have already done the same.
Ranbir Kapoor - Bollywood’s sixth highest paid actor - has been slammed after brazenly sharing pictures on Instagram with his girlfriend Alia Bhatt as they arrived at Mumbai airport on April 19, with the caption “Maldives calling”, The Sun reports.
Wealthy Indians are paying as much as 1.5 million rupees, or more than $A25,800, for a one way flight out of India, which includes ground handling and other fees, said Rajan Mehra, the chief executive officer of the New Delhi-based private jet firm Club One Air. It s not only the ultra rich, he told Bloomberg. Whoever can afford to take a private jet are taking private jets. Mr Mehra said in some cases, travellers would have to pay extra if the plane needed to be sent back to India empty. UAE authorities imposed a 10-day ban on flights from India on Sunday. Previously, the Delhi-Dubai route was one of the busiest in the world.