External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said in Mysuru on Sunday that the country’s response to COVID-19 was a demonstration of how the country could respond appropriately under stressful situations and its outreach helped earn global goodwill.
He was speaking in an interactive programme organised by Thinkers Forum in the city. Mr. Jaishankar said the pandemic tested the country’s abilities and the response proved that the country had the potential to not only look after its citizens both in India and abroad but stand up for the rest of the world and was a pointer to a civilisation state rising and reclaiming its place.
Mr. Jaishankar said at the beginning of 2020 the country was ill-prepared with respect to having adequate ventilators or manufacturing even masks but by the middle of 2020 India was exporting medicines to the rest of the world, said Mr. Jaishankar.
