President Joe Biden Assures Help To India: US To Supply Essential Drugs And Machinery To Combat Covid-19 Surge

United States’ President Joe Biden has indicated that America will reciprocate India’s assistance to them when the western country was ‘bind’ during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Last year, India had lifted the ban on exports of hydroxychloroquine to the USA after a telephonic discussion between former President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as America battled a major surge of Covid-19 cases.

Now, Biden has assured that the US is determined to come to help India as the country is recording more than three lakh Covid-19 infections on a daily basis for a few days now.

“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,” the US President told reporters at a news conference in the White House on Tuesday.

Biden added, “We are sending the actual mechanical parts that are needed for building machinery that makes vaccines, and that is being done as well.”

Meanwhile, several Congressmen and Congresswomen mounted pressure on the incumbent President to lend a hand of support to India during the ongoing crisis.

Additionally, Biden opened up on the US' necessity to ensure that they have other vaccines like Novavax and the others coming along for them to be in a viable position to share vaccines and its know-how with countries that really require the same.

“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,” Biden was quoted as saying in a report by the PTI.