INS Kesari returned to India on in June, 2020 after travelling 7,500 nautical miles over 55 days for ‘Mission Sagar’.
Mission Sagar was launched on 10 May, 2020 to provide Covid-19 related assistance to the island nations of Maldives, Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros and Seychelles.
The Indian Ocean region
Mission SAGAR
Deployed Medical Assistance Teams in Mauritius and Comoros, helping their Governments deal with Covid emergency and in case of Comoros, with dengue fever also.
Delivered consignments of Covid related essential medicines to Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros and Seychelles and about 600 tonnes of food items to Maldives.
To Mauritius, a special consignment of Ayurvedic medicines is was sent.
The consignments also included Hydroxychloroquine tablets.