Coronavirus | U.S. to send raw material for Covishield

It’s pursuing options to generate oxygen on an ‘urgent basis’.

will immediately deploy supplies and other assistance to India, the White House said, following a Sunday call between the National Security Advisers of two countries, Ajit Doval and Jake Sullivan. The U.S.’s assistance will include making raw materials for immediately accessible and pursuing options to generate oxygen “on an urgent basis.” However, there was no mention of the U.S. shipping ready-to-use vaccines from its stockpiles. Over the past week, the Biden administration had faced growing criticism for not doing and saying enough about the situation in India. The U.S. was “working around the clock” to deploy “available resources and supplies,” a statement released by NSC spokesperson Emily Horne on Sunday said. “Mr. Sullivan affirmed America’s solidarity with India, the two countries with the greatest number of in the world,” Ms. Horne said.