Indian-American Congressman Urges Biden To Give 60 Million Vaccine Doses To India

American civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson feared that the variant found in India could spread to the rest of the world.

American civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson Sr and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to allocate at least 60 million vaccine doses to India out of the 80 million announced earlier by the US President. With India having the second highest population in the world, Rev Jackson fears the variant found in India could spread to the rest of the world. "Not only are they (India) our neighbor in democracy and ally, the disease is airborne. We help ourselves and the world when we help to ameliorate the virus," Mr Jackson said at a conference. "COVID-19 knows no national boundaries. It does not discriminate by race, religion or ideology," he further stated. Alarmed at the 222,000 confirmed deaths in India and a second wave of the virus sweeping rural India, Rev. Jackson asserted the dire situation and there was an immediate need for vaccines in India.