US immediately sending whole series of help that India needs: Joe Biden

By Team Newsable | First Published Apr 28, 2021, 10:41 AM IST

Biden had spoken at length with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight against the viral disease.

The United States is sending a whole series of help that India needs in its battle against Covid-19, President Joe Biden said here, reiterating that New Delhi had done the same when his country was in need last year.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with the US President on April 26, Joe Biden in a video message shed light on his conversation with PM Modi.

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"We are sending immediately a whole series of help that it (India) needs including providing Remdesivir and other drugs that can deal with coronavirus and help patients recover," the US President 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 added.

This comes a day after the US lifted the embargo on the export of raw materials required by the Serum Institute of India for the production of Covishield. Writing on Twitter, PM Modi revealed that they spoke about the novel coronavirus situation in both countries. Conveying solidarity with India, Biden affirmed that the US would quickly deploy therapeutics, ventilators besides identifying sources of raw materials to be made available for Covishield production.

"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," Biden added.

On April 25, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval and expressed "deep sympathy" for the people following the spike in Covid-19 cases. Recalling that India had sent assistance to the US when its hospitals were strained early during the Covid-19 pandemic, Sullivan stated that his country is determined to help India. Apart from promising to make available the raw materials for Covishield production, he added that therapeutics, rapid diagnostic test kits, ventilators, and PPE shall be immediately sent to India.

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