PM Modi held a telephonic dialog with US President Joe Biden.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden had a phone call on Monday night. Describing the phone call as ‘fruitful’, PM Modi stated he thanked Biden for offering India help amid the huge second Covid wave.
“Had a fruitful conversation with @POTUS @JoeBiden today. We discussed the evolving COVID situation in both countries in detail. I thanked President Biden for the support being provided by the United States to India,” PM Modi tweeted.
“My discussion with @POTUS @JoeBiden also underscored the importance of smooth and efficient supply chains of vaccine raw materials and medicines. India-US healthcare partnership can address the global challenge of COVID-19,” the prime minister added.
Modi-Biden talks come a day after the US assured India that it’s going to instantly present the precise uncooked supplies required for manufacturing the Covishield vaccine. A prime White House official stated that the Biden administration was “working around the clock” to deploy all sources and provides to bolster the nation’s struggle in opposition to the lethal COVID-19 spike.
The Biden administration has come underneath criticism from a number of quarters, together with from members and supporters of the Democratic Party, for not releasing surplus COVID-19 vaccines to India when the nation is experiencing its worst-ever public well being disaster.
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India has urged the US to produce the uncooked supplies for manufacturing the Covishield vaccine.
Expressing deep sympathy for the folks of India following the current spike in COVID-19 circumstances, US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan, in a telephonic call with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on Sunday, affirmed America’s solidarity with India.
“Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals were strained early in the pandemic, the United States is determined to help India in its time of need,” Emily Horne, spokesperson of the US NSA stated after the phone call between Sullivan and Doval.
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“Building on the seven-decade health partnership between the United States and India — including battles against smallpox, polio and HIV — they resolved that India and the United States will continue to fight the global COVID-19 pandemic together,” Horne stated.
Observing that the US is “working around the clock” to deploy obtainable sources and provides, Horne stated that the US has “identified sources of specific raw material urgently required for Indian manufacture of the Covishield vaccine that will immediately be made available for India”.
(With PTI Inputs)
