May 5, 2021

LONDON — India’s foreign minister on Wednesday said he had been made aware of positive Covid cases among the country’s delegation to the G-7 summit in the U.K., prompting his entire team to self-isolate.

Britain is hosting the three-day meeting in the capital city of London, seeking to restart face-to-face diplomacy and discuss the most pressing geopolitical challenges with the world’s most industrialized countries. It is the first gathering of the group’s foreign ministers since 2019.

India, the current epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, is not in the G-7 nations but delegates from the country were invited as guests to try to deepen ties with the Indo-Pacific region.

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