WHO bolsters support to India
US rushing assistance to India: Biden
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said that it has bolstered its Covid-19 response in India by redeploying 2,600 health experts from other programs to counter the recent daily spike in cases and deaths.
In an email to CNN, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said, "As is true in any country, WHO has said the combination of relaxing of personal protective measures, mass gatherings and more contagious variants while vaccine coverage is still low, can create a perfect stor m." The health body also said that the problem of hospital overcrowding is being aggravated by patients who may not need to be there.
"Currently, part of the problem
The US is rushing a whole series of help, including life-saving drugs and machinery, that India needs to combat the massive surge in virus cases, President Joe Biden has said, as he again recalled New Delhi's assistance to America when it was in a "bind" due to the pandemic. Biden spoke at length with PM Narendra Modi on Monday and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight against the viral disease. "We are sending immediately a whole series of help that he needs, including providing for those Remdesivir and other drugs that are able to deal with this," Biden said at a White House news conference on Tuesday. "We are sending the actual mechanical parts that are needed for the machinery they have to build a vaccine, and that is being done as well," he added.
is that many people rush to the hospital (also because they do not have access to information/advice), even though home-based care monitoring can be managed very safely," said Jasarevic.
The WHO spokesperson further said that less than 15 per cent of people who have contracted the virus actually need hospital care and even fewer will need oxygen. WHO is also appealing for people to not stockpile essential supplies like oxygen cylinders and drugs, CNN reported.
The WHO will provide 4,000 oxygen concentrators to India which is experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases and related deaths, a spokesperson of the global health body said on Tues
day.
Technology giants like Google and Microsoft have also chipped in to support the country in the current crisis. The total count of positive cases now stands at 1,79,97,267 whereas the death toll has soared up to 2,01,187 deaths.
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