China backs the Russian position that politicization of the fight against the pandemic is unacceptable, according to the top diplomat

CBSE has announced the annual BRICS Math Online Competition which is held for students of classes 1 to 12 in the BRICS countries

India and Russia agreed to facilitate each other''s emergent needs of medicine and equipment to combat the Covid-19 pandemic

No matter what approach we use to identify the potential impact on global and national economies from the Covid-19 pandemic, the prognoses are not optimistic

Our BRICS partners, particularly China, India and Russia, are in a strong position to offer assistance - China and Russia in terms of personal protection equipment (PPE), Russia with ventilators and India in terms of medicine. South Africa needs all the items and can no longer rely on developed countries to assist as they are all securing medical essentials for their own people and are not willing, or in a position to, share their stock

The meet will happen via video conference and it is a Russia-led initiative given the fact that Russia is the chair of the BRICS for this year