VP Harris thanks India's Modi for resuming vaccine exports
The Peninsula
WASHINGTON - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and welcomed the South Asian nation's decision to resume exports of the COVID-19 vaccine and said both countries must work together to protect democracies around the world.
India, the world's biggest maker of COVID vaccines, announced this week that it would resume vaccine exports later this year. India stopped exports in April to focus on inoculating its own population as infections exploded.
"When India experienced the surge of COVID in the country, the United States was very proud to support India in its need and responsibility to vaccinate its people, and I welcome India's announcement that it will soon be able to resume vaccine exports," Harris said.