India and the US on Friday (May 28) promised to support each other amid the COVID-19 crisis in the second physical meet between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Both of them had met earlier this year in London on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting. Amid the second wave of the COVID crisis, the US sent assistance which included 20,000 courses of Remdesivir, 1,500 oxygen cylinders, nearly 550 mobile oxygen concentrators, 2.5 million N95 masks and a large-scale Deployable Oxygen Concentration System. Both sides have been engaging with each over on dealing with the crisis, especially under the Quad grouping of -- US, India, Australia, and Japan. After the first virtual summit that took place earlier this year, it was decided that more covid vaccines will be manufactured under the Quad Covid Vaccine initiative.

Source: dna May 29, 2021 03:56 UTC