Wuhan Coronavirus Thread

[johnq]

Taiwan to send COVID aid to India this weekend

Taiwan has bought 150 oxygen concentrators and aims to send them to India this weekend to help it deal with a massive increase in COVID-19 infections, and is also looking at providing further aid, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday.

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Taiwan to send COVID aid to India this weekend

Taiwan has bought 150 oxygen concentrators and aims to send them to India this weekend to help it deal with a massive increase in COVID-19 infections, and is also looking at providing further aid, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday.

Countries around the world have been rushing to help India alleviate the crisis. India's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.

Wu told reporters that they had been working on an aid package for India and have already purchased 150 oxygen concentrators which should be able to be sent this weekend.

"We are in the process of buying more oxygen concentrators and buying raw materials from overseas so our companies at home can produce even more," he said.

An oxygen concentrator reduces nitrogen from an air supply to produce an oxygen-enriched air supply to a patient.

Taiwan is also looking at providing other aid as requested by India, Wu added.

While India, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, the two have gotten closer in recent years thanks to their shared antipathy of Beijing.

Taiwan sees India as an important like-minded democracy and friend, and there are close cultural and economic links too.

Last year Taiwan accused China of trying to impose censorship in India after its embassy in New Delhi advised journalists to observe the "one-China" principle after newspapers carried advertisements for Taiwan's national day.

While Chinese Communist Party (CCP) airlines is stopping flights to India, thus stopping the Covid supplies purchased by Indian companies from reaching their destination (which the CCP also charged 40% extra for), Taiwan is sending essential supplies to India.

Coronavirus: Chinese carrier weighs calls to resume India cargo services

Sichuan Airlines Logistics suspended flights for 15 days as the number of cases surged across India.

www.scmp.com

Published: 7:00am, 1 May, 2021
A Chinese state-owned airline is reassessing whether to resume cargo flights to India, but so far the services remain suspended because of a
surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
Sichuan Airlines Logistics, the logistics arm of Sichuan Airlines, suspended cargo flights to India for 15 days from Monday, disrupting efforts to transport
oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies
from China into India, according to Indian media reports.
“We are still in the status of reassessing [when to resume the flights]. Due to the impact of the epidemic, cargo flights are still suspended. The specific date to resume flights to India has not been determined yet,” a spokesman for the carrier said on Friday.

Ba$tards charged 40 percent extra and are still not sending the purchased Covid supplies (including essential drug/vaccine precursors) to India.

China's airline suspends cargo flights bringing medical supplies to India

China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators

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China's airline suspends cargo flights bringing medical supplies to India
China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators

China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from China despite Beijing offering "support and assistance" to the country to deal with the latest surge of COVID-19 cases.
In a letter to the sales agents on Monday, the Sichuan Chuanhang Logistics Co. Ltd, the company which is part of the Sichuan Airlines said the airline has suspended its cargo flights on six routes, including Xian to Delhi, amid hectic efforts by private traders from both sides to procure oxygen concentrators from China.

In the letter seen by PTI, the company said in the face of sudden changes in the epidemic situation (in India), in order to reduce the number of imported cases, it is decided to suspend the flights for the next 15 days.
Indian route has always been the core strategic route for Sichuan Airlines. This suspension has also caused great losses to our company. We are very sorry for the unchanged situation, the letter said and sought the "understanding of its sales agents, it said. The letter also said the company will review the situation after 15 days.
The suspension of cargo flights came as a surprise to agents and freight forwarders who are frantically trying to procure the oxygen concentrators from China.
There are also complaints of Chinese manufacturers jacking up the prices by 35 to 40 per cent. The freight charges have been increased to over 20 per cent, Siddharth Sinha of Sino Global Logistics, a Shanghai-based freight forwarding company.
He told PTI here that the Sichuan Airlines decision to cancel flights has caused severe disruption to attempts by private traders in both the countries to secure quick supplies of the Oxygen concentrators to rush to India in view of the dire situation.
Now it becomes very challenging to rush the supplies as they have to be rerouted through Singapore and other countries through different airlines, which delays the much-needed supplies, he said.
The suspension of the flights owing to the coronavirus situation in India is surprising as there is no crew change in India and the same crew flies the aircraft back, he said.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
The Chinese cargo flights besides the shipping services have been operational throughout the pandemic rushing supplies of lucrative mobile phone equipment as well as a lot of other Chinese exports to India.
Sinha also said the Chinese suppliers also resorted to inhuman practice of heavy jacking up of prices to cash in on the pandemic emergency.
The suspension of flights also came as a surprise to the Indian officials here as it came in the backdrop of official statements offering support and assistance to India.

As usual, the Chinese Communist Party provides lip service while stabbing India in the back by stopping essential drug precursors from reaching india through its airline ban.

 

[angryIndian]

Amazing the ones who are responsible for 90 % virus spread should be given some blame . wow simply wow with this hypocrisy. I am not sure BJP 300 MPs and another 1000 MLAs spread covid to 4 lakh people across the country in last 3 months .

Tell me how will govt implement masking rule in MH or CG where one CM was busy with his 100 crore target and another CM was plucking tea leaves in Assam . oh not to forget one CM down south busy smuggling gold inside ass hole of international travellers .

Kumbh started on April not in january or february . Elections started in March . Please tell me what contributed to the spike in March in MH, DL and CG when there was no elections in these states

You will bring elections and religious 100 times but subtly ignore the 6 months long farmers protest and so many khap panchayat called by farmers in and around delhi

Also tell me how are you going to hold one person at helm responsible for Virus mutation ? is he sitting in a lab and creating this new mutations ?

Did i ever say that the Party-with-a-difference alone is solely responsible for the current crisis ?

It's no doubt a collective failure but a larger share lies with the central government because they are the ones with most resources at their disposal. They should have channelized their resources during the pandemic lull period to build up the infrastructure and the capacity to deal with future exigencies.

The government should have waited till it had stock of vaccines for at least 20-25% of the population before exporting it to other countries.The He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named should have lead by example by not hold mass election rallies with non existent safety protocols.

Things like farm laws and all others were not an urgent priory and knowing fully well that the farmers will be up in arms and it could create a political upheaval, they should have waited for a future time till the covid crisis had settled down completely for all those controversial laws and regulations.

 

[tarunraju]

A little late, but have you heard what panauti bibi has been up to lately?

• Her father tested positive in early-April
• He refused to go to the hospital until late-April, panauti was aware, and took no action to get him hospitalized sooner
• He dieded earlier this week
• Panauti used her father as an excuse to go on CNN, CBS, and other Burger channels to whine about how she's a victim of Modi's incompetence
• SM was quick to discover her tweets where she gloats about not being able to get her dad to go to the hospital around April 19; and called her out for being the vulture that she is

If she could use her father's corpse like a doormat, she is perfectly capable of leaking defence intel to the enemy.

 

[captscooby81]

You are again leaving the major culprit and just point blame on one side read it again "ITS THE PEOPLE" who fucked up dropping every single covid protocol and rushed to weddings, birthday parties, hosted holi parties and xmas parties and clubbing in jam packed clubs all led to this 2nd wave . I am not even blaming state govts of non BJP ruled as main culprit i am blaming the very important but irresponsible people

20-25 % of population means close to 23-28 crore vaccinations . so far we had only 16 crore vaccinations done and another 6 crore exported by SII as per its contracts . which still is not such a large number considering just the population above 45 years of age itself 36 crores .

Yes he should be blamed for elections rallies . But were Rallies of Raul baba and communist leaders spreading Chinese virus vaccine immunity ? is only one party rally which spreads virus ? If we have to blame lets blame the entire political class why just being singling out one party and be hypocrite

Did i ever say that the Party-with-a-difference alone is solely responsible for the current crisis ?

It's no doubt a collective failure but a larger share lies with the central government because they are the ones with most resources at their disposal. They should have channelized their resources during the pandemic lull period to build up the infrastructure and the capacity to deal with future exigencies.

The government should have waited till it had stock of vaccines for at least 20-25% of the population before exporting it to other countries.The He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named should have lead by example by not hold mass election rallies with non existent safety protocols.

Things like farm laws and all others were not an urgent priory and knowing fully well that the farmers will be up in arms and it could create a political upheaval, they should have waited for a future time till the covid crisis had settled down completely for all those controversial laws and regulations.

 

[johnq]

India urges China to clear bottlenecks on key pharma raw-material

The Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar wrote to Indian Ambassador in China Vikram Misri for an immediate intervention in the backdrop of the decision of the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines to suspend its cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

India urges China to clear bottlenecks on key pharma raw-material
The Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar wrote to Indian Ambassador in China Vikram Misri for an immediate intervention in the backdrop of the decision of the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines to suspend its cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19.

Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil), the country’s nodal agency for exports of pharmaceuticals, on Thursday appealed to the Indian Ambassador in China to immediately intervene in clearing bottlenecks on import of key raw materials from China amid serious supply chain disruptions.

The Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar wrote to Indian Ambassador in China Vikram Misri for an immediate intervention in the backdrop of the decision of the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines to suspend its cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19.

Pharmexcil fears that the decision of the Chinese airlines would have cascading effects on the entire supply chain, leading to a shortage of essential medicines for not just for India’s domestic needs but also adversely affect its pharmaceutical exports to meet the global needs in the time of the pandemic.

India's overall imports of bulk drugs and drug intermediates amounted to $3.84 billion in fiscal to March 2021. Of this, $2.6 billion or 68% of bulk drugs and intermediates are imported from China.

Uday Bhaskar submitted to the Indian Ambassador Misri that India is currently sourcing 60-70% of its requirement of drug intermediates, key starting material (KSMs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from China. Further, “most importantly 45-50% of all
APIs
imported feature in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM),” said the Pharmexcil director-general.

Though the Indian government had rolled out the Product Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for API manufacturing, “it is going to take some time to reduce our dependency on import of KSMs,” said Uday Bhaskar.

The Pharmexcil top executive said even as the Indian pharmaceutical sector was struggling hard to meet the global commitments during the hard phase of Covid second wave, “the decision of Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines suspending its cargo services to India for 15 days is worrisome in addition to increased freight cost and shortage of containers.”

Uday Bhaskar said the decision of Chinese Airlines “is likely to disrupt frantic efforts by Indian pharma industry to import medical supplies including oxygen concentrators as well as the KSMs/APIs required to manufacture finished formulations. The Industry is fearing of cascading effects on its entire supply chain leading to a shortage of the essential medicines for the nation’s population as well as severe impact on exports.”

The Pharmexcil director-general appealed to the Indian Ambassador “to intervene and take necessary measures to restore the supply chain of medical needs of our country including KSMs/APIs etc either by restoring the cargo services of Sichuan Airlines or by way of arranging Indian air cargo to lift the medical supplies.”

This is what India gets for relying on Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP is making statements about providing help to India, while cutting off supplies of essential drug precursors through suspension of its airlines' flights to India (see articles in my previous post above). Despite all assurances, the CCP airlines flights are still suspended. CCP should be punished by the World Trade Organization for hindering supplies of precursors to essential drugs during a pandemic.

 

[maximus777]

India urges China to clear bottlenecks on key pharma raw-material

The Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar wrote to Indian Ambassador in China Vikram Misri for an immediate intervention in the backdrop of the decision of the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines to suspend its cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

India urges China to clear bottlenecks on key pharma raw-material
The Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar wrote to Indian Ambassador in China Vikram Misri for an immediate intervention in the backdrop of the decision of the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines to suspend its cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19.

This is what India gets for relying on Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP is making statements about providing help to India, while cutting off supplies of essential drug precursors through suspension of its airlines' flights to India.

Why is this a surprise, especially after the confrontation along the LAC and Galwan clash? Which imbecile is in charge of this policy of getting emergency supplies from CCP? Govt of India should have operated under the assumption that nothing would come from CCP after June 2020, and created stockpiles from other sources or started manufacturing locally. Obviously the geniuses in the govt are on a different level of ineptitude. If this was Mao's China, the entire IAS/IFS/civil services cadre would have been purged!

 

[sunshine]

I see so many of stupid remarks，I knew the outbreak in India was far from over.
It will only spread hatred For some benefit.

China has delivered more than 20,000 oxygen generators to India in April.I haven't seen many reports in the Indian media.But 150 oxygen generators from Taiwan and 95 from Europe are making headlines.

China's Sichuan Airlines is only a local airline, and Sichuan Airlines only accounts for a very small part of the cargo between China and India.Small Airlines in the face of the epidemic risk is relatively low, they go according to the code of practice, cut off 15 days is the company's own decision.Other China international airlines and logistics companies, cargo to India are normal.

The price of oxygen in India has soared by 10 times, which must have been said by the Indian media that the price of materials purchased from China has increased by 10% to 30%.In the face of the epidemic, global prices are rising, rising 10% to 30% is the normal market price.Last year, the United States directly snatched the masks ordered by France at the Shanghai airport at three times the price.
At the same time, what did the United States send? The United States is packing up the things it does not use and sending them to India.Az vaccine, mask, and then only 1000 bottles of oxygen.
There are also some Chinese people who say that after things are shipped to India, the Indian media will say that the quality is very low, and if something happens, it will be blamed on these materials. This is the reality of the media.

 

[fire starter]

Karma.

 

[SimplyIndian]

According to a factsheet issued by the White House, the Joe Biden administration is shipping 1,100 cylinders, 1,700 oxygen concentrators, 15 million N95 masks, 1 million testing kits , 20,000 treatment courses of remdesivir and 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to India .

US sending Covid supplies to India via 3 military aircraft, 20 million vaccine doses also expected soon

Two aircraft with shipments of the emergency Covid supplies is scheduled to arrive in India on 30 April and a third is due to arrive on 3 May.

theprint.in

20 million is 4days worth vaccines considering we are vaccinating 50 lakhs per day.
Prod cap is increasing, we should have vaccines shortage in check in 10 to 15 days.

 

[ladder]

I see so many of stupid remarks，I knew the outbreak in India was far from over.
It will only spread hatred For some benefit.

China has delivered more than 20,000 oxygen generators to India in April.I haven't seen many reports in the Indian media.But 150 oxygen generators from Taiwan and 95 from Europe are making headlines.

China's Sichuan Airlines is only a local airline, and Sichuan Airlines only accounts for a very small part of the cargo between China and India.Small Airlines in the face of the epidemic risk is relatively low, they go according to the code of practice, cut off 15 days is the company's own decision.Other China international airlines and logistics companies, cargo to India are normal.

The price of oxygen in India has soared by 10 times, which must have been said by the Indian media that the price of materials purchased from China has increased by 10% to 30%.In the face of the epidemic, global prices are rising, rising 10% to 30% is the normal market price.Last year, the United States directly snatched the masks ordered by France at the Shanghai airport at three times the price.
At the same time, what did the United States send? The United States is packing up the things it does not use and sending them to India.Az vaccine, mask, and then only 1000 bottles of oxygen.
There are also some Chinese people who say that after things are shipped to India, the Indian media will say that the quality is very low, and if something happens, it will be blamed on these materials. This is the reality of the media.

I said post the news when those 10000/ 20000 oxygen concentrators land in India. Where is the news report?

Also substantiate your claims with links and reports, we can't quote you post each time and ask you to validate your posting.

Also, local people aren't in awe of China neither have been bribed by Chinese. So, expect them to complain if they encounter substandard product. Even more when they have paid a premium for the aquisition.

 

[SimplyIndian]

A little late, but have you heard what panauti bibi has been up to lately?

• Her father tested positive in early-April
• He refused to go to the hospital until late-April, panauti was aware, and took no action to get him hospitalized sooner
• He dieded earlier this week
• Panauti used her father as an excuse to go on CNN, CBS, and other Burger channels to whine about how she's a victim of Modi's incompetence
• SM was quick to discover her tweets where she gloats about not being able to get her dad to go to the hospital around April 19; and called her out for being the vulture that she is

If she could use her father's corpse like a doormat, she is perfectly capable of leaking defence intel to the enemy.

What is motivation behind these dark act. Money is not the one which make person do this deep shits. What she will get when dust settles.

 

[notaname]

What is motivation behind these dark act. Money is not the one which make person do this deep shits. What she will get when dust settles.

Hatred can you make do anything and we should not expect liberals to respect their parents and if we show them what they are they will equate us with qanon and other because you know truth hurts when you are a liberal.

 

[Tactical Doge]

What is motivation behind these dark act. Money is not the one which make person do this deep shits. What she will get when dust settles.

A tool to further her propoganda
We don't know what the relationship between her and her father was like, and he was an old guy
Burkha ji saw an opportunity and took it????

 

[Kumata]

A tool to further her propoganda
We don't know what the relationship between her and her father was like, and he was an old guy
Burkha ji saw an opportunity and took it????

She have kashmiri roots per se... so hatred is in blood... U can't do much .. But i was bewildered with the amount of hatred peaceful has for Rohit sardana... TBH, I was socked.. Rarely seen such celebrations on smoe body's misery...

May Karma give them what;s their due...

 

[SexyChineseLady]

I said post the news when those 10000/ 20000 oxygen concentrators land in India. Where is the news report?

Also substantiate your claims with links and reports, we can't quote you post each time and ask you to validate your posting.

Also, local people aren't in awe of China neither have been bribed by Chinese. So, expect them to complain if they encounter substandard product. Even more when they have paid a premium for aquisition.

"Incomplete statistics show China has exported to #India 26,000+ ventilators & oxygen concentrators"

The source is Chinese so you probably won't believe.

It's okay, there will be no news in India when this shipment from China lands either.

 

[SimplyIndian]

A tool to further her propoganda
We don't know what the relationship between her and her father was like, and he was an old guy
Burkha ji saw an opportunity and took it????

Epic level purge needed in journalism and their dens like JNU et al

 

[ladder]

"Incomplete statistics show China has exported to #India 26,000+ ventilators & oxygen concentrators"

The source is Chinese so you probably won't believe.

It's okay, there will be no news in India when this shipment from China lands either.

"Incomplete statistics show China has exported to #India 26,000+ ventilators & oxygen concentrators"

The source is Chinese so you probably won't believe.

It's okay, there will be no news in India when this shipment from China lands either.

Even if I were to believe,
26000 ventilators & oxygen concentrators =/= 20,000 oxygen concentrators.
Are you really that stupid?

The 26000 quoted figure can have any ratio of ventilators and oxygen concentrators.


Those things are oxygen tanks, cryogenic pressure vessels and not oxygen concentrators.
Confirm with your supervisor before posting.

Now I know why Chinese are using anal swab. If they use nasal swab, they will reach the top of the skull as there is vast volume of absolute empty space between the ears.

 

[Kumata]

"Incomplete statistics show China has exported to #India 26,000+ ventilators & oxygen concentrators"

The source is Chinese so you probably won't believe.

It's okay, there will be no news in India when this shipment from China lands either.

Because most probably all were paid for by at least 30-40 % more than MRP in normal times. Why ack it or advertise it ....

Rest, its a matter of concern that CCP mouth piece themselves are using words like "Incomplete statistics" . Perhaps imagination of editor to show CCP in good light

 

[johnq]

I see so many of stupid remarks，I knew the outbreak in India was far from over.
It will only spread hatred For some benefit.

CGTN is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda network. CCP are liars and their 50 cent internet army bots are too brainwashed by the CCP to see the truth. The fact is that the CCP state-run airlines (Sichuan) are major transporters of drug precursors and other Covid supplies to India, and those airlines are currently not delivering the supplies.

China's airline suspends cargo flights bringing medical supplies to India

China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from China despite Beijing offering "support and assistance" to the country...

www.wionews.com

China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from China despite Beijing offering "support and assistance" to the country to deal with the latest surge of COVID-19 cases.

In a letter to the sales agents on Monday, the Sichuan Chuanhang Logistics Co. Ltd, the company which is part of the Sichuan Airlines said the airline has suspended its cargo flights on six routes, including Xian to Delhi, amid hectic efforts by private traders from both sides to procure oxygen concentrators from China.

In the letter seen by PTI, the company said in the face of sudden changes in the epidemic situation (in India), in order to reduce the number of imported cases, it is decided to suspend the flights for the next 15 days.

Indian route has always been the core strategic route for Sichuan Airlines. This suspension has also caused great losses to our company. We are very sorry for the unchanged situation, the letter said and sought the "understanding of its sales agents, it said. The letter also said the company will review the situation after 15 days.

The suspension of cargo flights came as a surprise to agents and freight forwarders who are frantically trying to procure the oxygen concentrators from China.

There are also complaints of Chinese manufacturers jacking up the prices by 35 to 40 per cent. The freight charges have been increased to over 20 per cent, Siddharth Sinha of Sino Global Logistics, a Shanghai-based freight forwarding company.

He told PTI here that the Sichuan Airlines decision to cancel flights has caused severe disruption to attempts by private traders in both the countries to secure quick supplies of the Oxygen concentrators to rush to India in view of the dire situation.

Now it becomes very challenging to rush the supplies as they have to be rerouted through Singapore and other countries through different airlines, which delays the much-needed supplies, he said.

The suspension of the flights owing to the coronavirus situation in India is surprising as there is no crew change in India and the same crew flies the aircraft back, he said.

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.

The Chinese cargo flights besides the shipping services have been operational throughout the pandemic rushing supplies of lucrative mobile phone equipment as well as a lot of other Chinese exports to India.

Sinha also said the Chinese suppliers also resorted to inhuman practice of heavy jacking up of prices to cash in on the pandemic emergency.

The suspension of flights also came as a surprise to the Indian officials here as it came in the backdrop of official statements offering support and assistance to India.

I knew the CCP propagandists would come here and lie/cover up the truth with their CCP propaganda posts.

Indian pharma frets as China airline uncertainty hits supply

www.thehindu.com

India’s pharmaceuticals industry is concerned that the disruption to Chinese carrier Sichuan Airlines’ cargo services to the country may seriously hit the imports of key raw materials and has appealed to the Indian envoy to help find a solution.

“The decision of Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines suspending its cargo services to India for 15 days is worrisome,” Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) director general Ravi Udaya Bhaskar said, urging the Indian embassy in Beijing to intervene. Notwithstanding reports that the airline was mulling a new plan to resume its cargo flights to the region, an industry official said the carrier’s services to India remained suspended for a few days now. Sichuan operated to 6 Indian cities and other industries too depend on its services.

In a letter to the Ambassador Vikram Misri, Mr. Bhaskar said there was a real risk of disruption to “frantic efforts” by the industry to import medical supplies, including oxygen concentrators, key starting materials (KSMs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) at a time when the country was battling COVID.

Industry fears this could lead to shortages of essential medicines as well as hit exports. The DG said 60-70% of drug intermediates, KSM and API requirements are sourced from China. About 45-50% of all APIs imported feature in the National List of Essential Medicines. Though the Product Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for API manufacturing has been rolled out by the government of India, it is “going to take some time to reduce our dependence on import of KSMs,” Mr. Bhaskar said. The development also comes at a time when the industry is grappling with increased freight cost and shortage of containers.

Coronavirus: Chinese carrier weighs calls to resume India cargo services
Sichuan Airlines Logistics suspended flights for 15 days as the number of cases surged across India.

www.scmp.com

Published: 7:00am, 1 May, 2021
A Chinese state-owned airline is reassessing whether to resume cargo flights to India, but so far the services remain suspended because of a
surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
Sichuan Airlines Logistics, the logistics arm of Sichuan Airlines, suspended cargo flights to India for 15 days from Monday, disrupting efforts to transport
oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies
from China into India, according to Indian media reports.
“We are still in the status of reassessing [when to resume the flights]. Due to the impact of the epidemic, cargo flights are still suspended. The specific date to resume flights to India has not been determined yet,” a spokesman for the carrier said on Friday.

 

[RedPumpkin]

Cc Namassi's like Sharjeel and safoora. Poor safoora. Other sharia bolsheviks also cc'ed