Tata Trusts airlifting critical supplies for country-wide deployment to support India’s COVID-19 response

The consignment, of about one crore individual units, will arrive in multiple batches, will be deployed where these are most needed across the country through coming weeks

Tata Trusts is airlifting critical supplies for country-wide deployment to support India’s COVID-19 interventions. The operation is being done with the support of Tata International.

The items being imported comprise personal protection equipment kits (including coveralls, masks, gloves and goggles) N95 / KN95 masks and surgical masks of different grades. The consignment, of about one crore individual units, will arrive in multiple batches and will be deployed where these are most needed across the country through the coming weeks. The total value committed so far to the sourcing of such materials is about Rs 150 crore.

The Trusts’ intervention follows Ratan N Tata, Chairman, Tata Trusts statement that, “Urgent emergency resources need to be deployed to cope with the needs of fighting the COVID-19 crisis, which is one of the toughest challenges the human race will face.”