Indian Delegation Self-Isolates at G-7 Meeting of Top Diplomats
- Jaishankar tweeted after reports of Covid cases in delegation
- U.K. hosting event and invited India as a special guest to G-7
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in London on May 3.
Photographer: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
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The U.K. insisted a meeting of top Group of Seven diplomats in London should go ahead after India’s foreign minister said he would self-isolate over possible exposure to coronavirus.
On Wednesday, the second day of the summit, the U.K. appeared to be pushing on through as a smiling Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was filmed welcoming fellow ministers to Lancaster House with fist bumps. On Tuesday afternoon, according to people familiar, he informed fellow ministers that there had been two positive cases among the Indian delegation, but that foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was not one of them.