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India s neighbours close borders over virus rampage | World

Friday, 07 May 2021 08:06 AM MYT A health worker wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) kit walks inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a Covid-19 coronavirus ward in New Delhi April 27, 2021. AFP pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. COLOMBO, May 7 Sri Lanka on Thursday became the latest of India’s neighbours to seal its borders with the South Asian giant as it battles a record coronavirus surge. Bangladesh and Nepal have also banned flights and sought to close their borders with India, where a huge rise in numbers in the past three weeks has taken deaths past 230,000 and cases over 21 million.

India s neighbors close borders over virus rampage

Published May 7, 2021, 9:46 AM Sri Lanka on Thursday became the latest of India’s neighbours to seal its borders with the South Asian giant as it battles a record coronavirus surge. Sri Lanka has reported 117,529 infections with 734 deaths since the start of the pandemic. (Ishara S. KODIKARA AFP/File / MANILA BULLETIN) Bangladesh and Nepal have also banned flights and sought to close their borders with India, where a huge rise in numbers in the past three weeks has taken deaths past 230,000 and cases over 21 million. All three countries are fighting their own pandemic surges, which Red Cross leaders have described as a “human catastrophe”.

WFP s Pacific Humanitarian Air Service and the Red Cross join forces to deliver relief to typhoon-devastated Palau - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Select Page WFP’s Pacific Humanitarian Air Service and the Red Cross join forces to deliver relief to typhoon-devastated Palau AIRAI, Palau– Relief aid is arriving in Palau after Typhoon Surigae left a trail of destruction across the tiny island state of Palau, damaging some 1500 homes, destroying roads, and cutting off water and power supplies. To transport vital relief supplies from stockpiles in Kuala Lumpur to remote affected communities, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces. The collaboration includes IFRC relief supplies, along with 400 family kits donated by the Government of Australia brought in from WFP-managed UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using the Pacific Humanitarian Air Service also managed by WFP. USAID offered humanitarian assistance worth US$ 100,000 towards IFRC relief supplies.

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