New Delhi: The Vice President of the United States of America Kamala Harris on Friday mentioned the COVID-19 surge and the resultant deaths in India is “nothing short of heartbreaking” and that India’s welfare is critically vital to US.
The US administration beneath President Joe Biden has pledged assist to India in its hour of want, Harris mentioned that the total authorities equipment has been working to assist the nation on this hour of disaster.
“At the beginning of the pandemic, when our hospital beds were stretched, India sent assistance. And today, we are determined to help India in its hour of need,” Harris mentioned in her remarks on the State Department’s Diaspora outreach occasion on US COVID Relief for India, PTI reported.
“We do this as friends of India, as members of the Asian Quad, and as part of the global community. I believe that if we continue to work together ‘across nations and sectors’ we will all get through this,” she mentioned.
As per the USAID, 20,000 programs of remdesivir (125,000 vials); almost 1,500 oxygen cylinders and a million fast diagnostic exams to shortly determine COVID-19 instances and stop group unfold has been rpovided as emergency medical aid to India.
The supllies additionally includ almost 550 cellular oxygen concentrators that get hold of oxygen from ambient air. These models have a lifespan of more than 5 years and might serve a number of sufferers without delay, relying on their oxygen wants. The US has additionally despatched almost 2.5 million N95 masks to defend well being care professionals and different frontline staff.
A big-scale deployable Oxygen Concentration System that may present oxygen to deal with 20 or more sufferers at a time and 210 pulse oximeters to measure oxygen ranges in a affected person’s blood to find out whether or not the next degree of care is wanted has additionally been despatched to India, USAID mentioned.
Meanwhile, India on Friday reported more than 4.14 lakh day by day new coronavirus instances and hospitals are reeling beneath a scarcity of medical oxygen and beds.
