Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France has said the country is sending 8 oxygen generators to India that will equip hospitals and help them produce oxygen. In a statement, France has said, “At the request of the President of the French Republic, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs is fully mobilised to carry out an exceptional solidarity mission in support of the Indian people, who have been severely affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. Coordinated by the Ministry’s Crisis and Support Centre and carried out by the Embassy of France in India, the mission will involve shipping by air and sea freight by the end of this week: 8 medical oxygen generators, manufactured by a French SME, each of which can make an Indian hospital autonomous in oxygen supply for approximately 10 years.”
The Biden administration is working nonstop to do all it can to deliver on an urgent basis the supplies most needed by India to combat the deadly Covid-19 wave, the US State Department has said. The current situation in India is of great concern to the United States, State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters on Monday. “We have always stood in solidarity with our friends and our partners in India,” he added. India was there for the American people in their hour of need and the United States will be there for the country as it meets its worst-ever public health crisis, President Joe Biden said after his phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The two leaders spoke on Monday even as the Biden administration swung into action to provide assistance to India in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The urgent help announced by the White House ranged from oxygen supplies, raw materials for Covid-19 vaccines, critical life-saving drugs to PPEs. “India was there for us, and we will be there for them,” Biden said in a tweet soon after his phone call with Modi.
