The United States is sending a whole series of help that India
needs in its battle against COVID-19, US President Joe Biden said, reiterating
that New Delhi had done the same when his country was in need last year.
Joe Biden had spoken at length with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
Monday and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight against the viral
disease.
"We are sending immediately a whole series of help that he
needs, including providing for those Remdesivir and other drugs that are able
to deal with this," Joe Biden told reporters at a White House news
conference on Tuesday.
"We are sending the actual mechanical parts that are needed
for the machinery they have to build a vaccine, and that is being done as well,"
he said.
The president said he had discussed with Prime Minister Modi on
when the US would be able to send actual vaccines to India.
"The problem is right now, we have to make sure we have other
vaccines like Novavax and others coming on probably, and I think we will be in
a position to be able to share vaccines as well as know-how with other
countries who are in real need," he said.
"I might add when we were in a bind in the very beginning,
India helped us," Joe Biden added.
India is currently struggling with a second wave of the pandemic
with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past
few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and
beds.
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