Photo: NZ HeraldForeign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says a long-serving staff member at the New Zealand High Commission in India has died of Covid-19. She said she was confident that New Zealand staff provided all the support "as best as they could" to the staffer. "I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of a long-serving New Zealand High Commission employee in New Delhi. The staff member joined the High Commission in 1968, during the time that Sir Edmund Hillary was New Zealand's High Commissioner to India. "He was an in-country staff member, and to my knowledge, they did as much as they could to care for him."

Source: Otago Daily Times May 18, 2021 02:26 UTC