New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Portugal and France has been cancelled due to a latest spurt in COVID-19 circumstances, sources confirmed to Zee News on Tuesday (April 20, 2021).
PM Modi was to journey to Portugal for the sixteenth India-EU summit that was scheduled to happen on May 8, following which he was slated to journey to France for a bilateral visit. The India-EU summit will now happen nearly.Â
The fifteenth India-EU summit was additionally held nearly amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2020 as Prime Minister Modi had to defer his Brussels visit again then.Â
India, going by the second wave of COVID-19, has been reporting over 2.5 lakh circumstances from the previous few days. The scenario can be dire in the nationwide capital Delhi, which has imposed a whole lockdown for the subsequent six days.Â
On Monday, the United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson had additionally known as off his journey to India for the second time due to the prevailing COVID-19 scenario.Â
Johnson was to visit India on April 25. He was earlier scheduled to come on January 26 because the Chief Guest of the Republic Day celebrations.Â
This is to be famous that PM Modi in March this 12 months had travelled to Bangladesh to participate in the neighbouring nation’s fiftieth Independence 12 months celebrations. The Prime Minister’s visit was the primary time he travelled overseas since November 2019.
