US to provide medical supplies, vaccine raw materials to India 'immediately' - NSA Jake Sullivan spoke on the phone with NSA Ajit Doval, expressing deep sympathy for the people of India following the recent spike in COVID cases.
It’s pursuing options to generate oxygen on an ‘urgent basis’.
The U.S will immediately deploy supplies and other assistance to India, the White House said, following a Sunday call between the National Security Advisers of two countries, Ajit Doval and Jake Sullivan. The U.S.’s assistance will include making raw materials for COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’ immediately accessible and pursuing options to generate oxygen “on an urgent basis.” However, there was no mention of the U.S. shipping ready-to-use vaccines from its stockpiles. Over the past week, the Biden administration had faced growing criticism for not doing and saying enough about the situation in India.
âWe really need to do moreâ: US ships vaccine raw materials to India
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By Paul Schemm and Claire Parker
April 26, 2021 â 7.37am
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Dubai: The United States has pledged to send vaccine materials and other medical relief to India, which is enduring the largest coronavirus outbreak of the entire pandemic, and running out beds, oxygen and testing kits.
The National Security Council said Sunday that the United States would provide vaccine materials, drugs, test kits, ventilators and personal protective equipment, and was âpursuing options to provide oxygen generation and related supplies on an urgent basisâ.
US says it will provide vaccine raw materials to India ANI | Updated: Apr 25, 2021 22:41 IST
Washington [US], April 25 (ANI): The raw material urgently required for the Indian manufacture of Covishield vaccine will immediately be made available to India, the White House said on Sunday local time.
Earlier in the day, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke on the phone today with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, expressing deep sympathy for the people of India following the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
According to a readout from The White House, Sullivan affirmed America s solidarity with India, the two countries with the greatest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.
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“Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals were strained early in the pandemic, we are determined to help India in its time of need,” President Joe Biden tweeted on Sunday.
Material needed to produce Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made in India, has been identified and “will immediately be made available,” Emily Horne, a spokesperson for U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, said in a statement.