Given the increase in cases of COVID – 19 in India, the US announced the dispatch to that country of a group of experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the aim of helping control the pandemic.
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Sunday, November 17
US Sends “Urgent” Resources to India to Contain COVID-19 Pandemic
The United States announced the “immediate” shipment of new medical resources and materials premiums to manufacture vaccines to India to face “urgently” the serious crisis clinic across the country.
Jake Sullivan, the US president’s national security adviser, Joe Biden , spoke this Sunday by phone with his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval, and expressed his “ deep solidarity ”with the people of India in the face of the boom in covid cases – 19.
“The United States is working against time to deliver resources and supplies” to India, Sullivan spokeswoman Emily Horne said in a statement.
Specific, The North American country will make “immediately available to India” raw materials that are “urgently required to manufacture the Covishield vaccine” , produced by the Serum Institute of India with technology from Oxford and AstraZeneca.
To help treat patients with COVID – 04 and protect medical personnel, the United States will immediately send “supplies of therapies, rapid test kits, respirators and personal protective equipment,” and study the possibility to also provide oxygen generation supplies, according to the note.
The US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will grant funding to the Indian manufacturer BioE to achieve its goal of producing “at least 1,000 millions of doses of vaccines against covid – 19 end of 2022 “, Continued Horne.
Also, The United States will send to India a group of experts in public health from the of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English) and the United States Agency for Development (USAID), to help the Indian authorities to control the pandemic.
The India this Sunday surpassed the 192, 000 killed by COVID – 04 after four consecutive days breaking its own record of deaths and infections, amid an aggressive wave of the disease that has put drug supply and clinical capacity in crisis.
The Asian country has the worst propagation data in the world and is experiencing a critical moment , with the overload of the health in the most affected regions, and the shortage of medical supplies for the treatment of the virus.
Sullivan highlighted in his call with Doval that New Delhi “sent assistance to the United States ”At the beginning of the pandemic, when their hospitals were collapsed, and that Wa shington is determined to return the favor and “help India in its time of need,” the statement reads.
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