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Coronavirus: Chinese carrier weighs calls to resume India cargo services for medical essentials
- Sichuan Airlines Logistics suspended flights for 15 days as the number of cases surged across India
- Beijing offers condolences to New Delhi over the deadly outbreak
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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.
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The statement came as Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to help India to cope with the drastic surge of Covid-19 cases.
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In a condolence message to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Xi said he was very concerned about the recent Covid-19 outbreak in India.
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