{"id":29923,"date":"2020-04-28T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=29923"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:20:25","slug":"brics-foreign-ministers-expected-to-brainstorm-joint-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/brics-foreign-ministers-expected-to-brainstorm-joint-response-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"BRICS Foreign Ministers expected to brainstorm joint response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will join his counterparts from Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa on Tuesday, as the BRICS grouping goes into a major brainstorming session to forge a joint response to counter the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministerial video conference will be hosted by Russia, who is the current rotating head of the BRICS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting will focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international relations and possible joint measures in the fight against the highly dangerous and fast-spreading contagion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BRICS presidency was passed from Brazil to Russia from 1 January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide amounts to 30,40,709 death. Out of which 2,10,842 deaths were reported and 8,93,872 recoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are the BRICS countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will join his counterparts from Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa on Tuesday, as the BRICS grouping goes into a major brainstorming session to forge a joint response to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Ministerial video conference will be hosted by Russia, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":29924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-29923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29925,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29923\/revisions\/29925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29923"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=29923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}