U.S. needs to send critical medical supplies to India: Raja Krishnamoorthi

Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has welcomed the unanimous passage of a House decision that urged the Biden administration to send critical medical supplies to India amid the second wave of coronavirus.

Mr. Krishnamoorthi applauded the passage of the decision, which he co-sponsored, recognising the devastating impression of COVID-19 in India.

As a member of the India Caucus, Congressman Krishnamoorthi helps U/S/ efforts to mitigate the pandemic on a world scale, particularly in nations most impacted, resembling India.

In order to additional the efforts of this decision, he has additionally launched the bicameral Nullifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate (NOVID) Act to develop the US world vaccination efforts.

The NOVID Act will scale up manufacturing capability to produce eight billion vaccine doses, immunise 60 per cent of the inhabitants within the 92 COVAX nations, together with India, and set up a world illness surveillance community to defend towards future pandemics.

“This vote shows that support for global vaccination and for India, is an overwhelmingly bipartisan sentiment in the US House of Representatives. I’m pleased that my colleagues and I were able to pass H.Res.402 to express our nations’ need to support countries like India, which have been significantly impacted by devastating COVID-19 case rates,” Mr. Krishnamoorthi said.

“That is why I’ve additionally launched my NOVID Act to develop the function of the United States in guaranteeing that vaccinations make it into folks’s arms throughout the globe. This will finish the pandemic quicker and defend the great progress that the United States has made by limiting the possibility of a harmful COVID-19 mutation creating abroad. This is a world pandemic that requires a world response,” he added.