The focus of the visit would be to prepare grounds for an in-person summit of leaders of the Quad grouping comprising India, Japan, Australia and the US in Washington later this year.
Congressman Brad Sherman said the Sindh province was also dealing with forced disappearances and urged the Biden administration to ensure the region receives US aid.
US spokesperson Ned Price said before we can ship vaccines, every country is required to complete its own domestic set of operational, regulatory and legal processes.
US has so far announced to distribute 80 million doses of America’s own vaccine supply which Biden had pledged to allocate by June end in service of ending the pandemic globally.
Confident of the availability of Covid vaccines in the US, the Biden administration has removed Defense Production Act priority ratings on AstraZeneca, Novavax and Sanofi vaccines.
US has been facing calls to do more to share vaccines globally as its own demand falls and the virus rages in other countries, giving rise to Covid variants.
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said this is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid pandemic call for extraordinary measures.
White House chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci said outbreak in India has highlighted how wealthier nations have failed to provide equal access to healthcare across the world.
US decision to prioritise domestic demand is why certain raw materials — which are manufactured in US or whose parent firms are based there — are not available for India.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
Trump is not the first American president to propose such a defence system. Ronald Reagan proposed a space-centric Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, but it never took off.
Pakistani establishments and their proxies are prone to severe, predictable 7-year-itch. Each step up the escalation ladder buys India about this many years of deterrence on average.
COMMENTS