Many countries around the world are sending oxygen to India. This is because of India’s current COVID-19 crisis. India 2020 population is estimated at 1,380,004,385 people at mid year according to UN data. India population is equivalent to 17.7% of the total world population. The population density in India is 464 per Km2 (1,202 people per mi2). is projected to overtake top-ranking China within forty years. Its residents comprise more than one-seventh of the entire world’s population, and despite a slowly decreasing fertility rate (which still exceeds the replacement rate and keeps the median age of the population relatively low), an increasing life expectancy adds to an expanding population. In comparison with other countries whose populations are decreasing, such as Japan, India has a relatively small share of aged population, which indicates the probability of lower death rates and higher retention of the existing population. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that the Indian government had dealt with the challenge posed by COVID-19 pandemic in many ways like a people’s movement by involving people and motivating them. The minister said that the Indian government had done right things such as stopping international travel and a nationwide lockdown in the early stages of the pandemic.
He mentioned that in the initial weeks and months, India was looking for equipment, and today it was exporting a lot of this equipment to the world.
“We have set up almost 15,000 COVID-19 centres by converting hospitals and other public buildings as dedicated facilities for COVID-19 treatment,” he said.
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