US Civil Rights Leader To Ask Biden To Give India 60 Million Covid Vaccine Doses

Eminent American civil rights leader Rev. Jesse L. Jackson will be joined by a number of prominent Indian leaders in Delhi today, to make a public appeal to US President Joe Biden for more humanitarian aid, according to a community statement.

Eminent American civil rights leader Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is urging President Joe Biden to release 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to India, which is experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of thee pandemic in the world. Rev. Jackson will be joined by a number of prominent Indian leaders in the national capital on Wednesday, to make a public appeal to Biden for more humanitarian aid, according to a community statement. "The pandemic poses a threat to humanity, not to any one country. Our response must be as encompassing as the threat," Rev Jackson said in a statement. He will urge Biden to give India 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, it said. Dr Bharat Barai, chairman, US India Friendship Council, urged the President to facilitate the supply of the "much needed antiviral medications of Remdesivir and Tocilizumab to India immediately."