US To Send ''Strike Team'', Covid Vaccine Raw Material, Oxygen To India: Report

The Strike Team will also include CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officers and laboratory leads, leadership and service officers who will work directly with US officials.

President Joe Biden spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, pledging US assistance after growing pressure on Washington to help. Post the high-level call between the two leaders a senior administration official told reporters that the US is ready with a range of support and is prepared to immediately start deploying it. The US will dispatch a "Strike Team" comprising of public health experts to India, the official added. "US CDC is working with USAID that will urgently deploy a strike team to India which will improve public health experts to work in close collaboration with our embassy with India''s health ministries and experts and with India's Epidemic Intelligence Service staff," the official added. The Strike Team will work hand in hand with Indian experts in areas including laboratory services, surveillance and epidemiology, and bioinformatics for sequencing and modelling of the disease, infection prevention and control the rollout and risk communications.