China assures help after Sonu Sood tweets about country blocking his order for O2 concentrators

Team Udayavani, May 2, 2021, 1:27 PM IST

After actor Sonu Sood tweeted of China blocking his order of oxygen concentrators from the country, the Chinese envoy in India replied to his tweet assuring help in importing the consignment.

Sood on Saturday had tweeted, “We are trying to get hundreds of oxygen concentrators to India. It’s sad to say that China has blocked lots of our consignments and here in India we are losing lives every minute. I request @China_Amb_India @MFA_China to help us get our consignments cleared so we can save lives.”

In reply to his tweet, the Chinese ambassador to India Sun Weidong stated, “@SonuSood Noted your twitter info. Mr. Sood. China will do its utmost to support India fighting Covid-19. To my knowledge,freight air routes from China to India are operating normally. The past two weeks have witnessed 61 freight flights from China to India in operation.

We’ve provided convenience in customs clearance&transportation for India to transport medical supplies from cities in China. Will continue to ensure smooth functioning of export channel of materials to India.

Pls let us know any problem you met (or email to [email protected]) so that we could try our best to help accordingly.”

This comes after it was reported that China had lately stopped all cargo flights to India carrying medical items need to assuage the COVID-19 situation in India.

Also, recently China’s president Xi Jinping had written to Prime Minister Modi expressing his country’s readiness to extend all forms of cooperation to help India tide over the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.