COVID-19: US helps India considerably, says President Biden

The US helps India “significantly” in its combat towards the second wave of COVID-19 by sending it materials and machine elements, President Joe Biden has stated.
So far, six air shipments funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have departed the US for India. These flights embody well being provides, oxygen cylinders, N95 masks, and medicines.
“We are helping Brazil. We are helping India significantly. I spoke to Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi. What he needs most is the material and the parts to be able to have his machines that can make the vaccine work. We’re sending him that,” Joe Biden advised reporters on the White House on Tuesday.
“We’re sending them oxygen. We are sending them a lot of the precursors. So we’re doing a lot for India,” he stated responding to a query on his help to India, Brazil, and different nations amid the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Joe Biden stated by July 4, the US goes to ship 10 per cent of AstraZeneca vaccines to different nations.
AstraZeneca vaccine is getting used all over the world however has not been authorized to be used within the US.
“With regard to the AstraZeneca vaccine which we had, we have sent that vaccine to Canada and to Mexico and there are other countries that we’re talking to now. Matter of fact, I talked to a head of state today. I’m not prepared to announce who else we’ll be giving the vaccine to,” the US president stated.
“But we are going to by the 4th of July have sent about 10 per cent of what we have to other nations, including some of the ones you mentioned,” he added.
At the request of the Indian authorities, the USAID had earlier offered some provides to the Indian Red Cross, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki advised reporters at her every day information convention.
“These are a lot of the components that the Indian government has expressed a vital need for. More flights are on the way, with total existence expected to exceed USD100 million,” Jen Psaki stated.
“In terms of oxygen support which is a big component of what they need right now, we are talking about oxygen cylinders, so the USAID delivered approximately 1,500 cylinders that will remain in India and can repeatedly be refilled at local supply centers with more planeloads to come,” she stated.
The USAID has despatched roughly 550 oxygen concentrators to acquire oxygen from ambient air and it has additionally delivered large-scale models to assist as much as 20 sufferers every of an oxygen technology unit, she added.

The press secretary advised reporters that the Biden administration has directed its personal order of AstraZeneca manufacturing provides to India, permitting India to make over 20 million doses.
The US has additionally offered a million fast diagnostic exams and final weekend, the USAID delivered 20,000 remedy programs of the antiviral drug remdesivir to assist deal with hospitalised sufferers, she stated.
A bunch of consultants from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is headed to India. The group will work in shut coordination with India’s public well being consultants in laboratory surveillance and epidemiology, emergency response and operations improvement, bioinformatics for genomic sequencing and modeling, Jen Psaki added.