India "Moved Mountains" To Contain Second Wave Of Covid: S Jaishankar In Kuwait

S Jaishankar lauded the contributions of the Indian community, saying it in many ways defines India abroad.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday assured the worried diaspora in Kuwait that the second wave of COVID-19 was receding in India and the government "really moved mountains" to contain the pandemic. Mr Jaishankar, who arrived on his first bilateral visit to the oil-rich Gulf nation early on Thursday, addressed the Indian community at the conclusion of his meetings in the country. "The second wave of the COVID-19 has started to recede. The daily number of new infections is less than what it was in early May. The positivity rate has also come down dramatically," he said. "A large part of it has been made possible by very very vigorous government response to the second wave. The kind of effort and energy that I saw, the long hours that people put in. People really moved mountains to respond to what was an unprecedented situation," he said.