NEW DELHI: Indonesia's Deputy Chief of Mission in India, Ferdy Piay, has died of covid-19 in a hospital in Jakarta. "With sadness but also with profound gratitude of our many memories working together that I bid farewell to a good friend and wonderful colleague, Ferdy Piay, Chargé d'Affaires of @KBRI_NewDelhi. In April, a Tanzanian official had become the first foreign diplomat to die of covid-19 pandemic in India. The High Commission of Tanzania had announced that Col. Dr Moses Beatus Mlula, Defence Adviser of Tanzania, died on 28 April at the Base Hospital, Delhi Cantonment. Earlier this month, a local staffer in the New Zealand High Commission had also died of covid-19 infection.

Source: Mint May 26, 2021 12:33 UTC