President Biden made commitment to send vaccines to India: US NSA

The US announced that India will get COVID vaccines via COVAX facility and directly as well in the first tranche of 25 million doses announced for the international community.

New Delhi: The United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Friday (June 4) said that President Joe Biden has made a commitment that Washington will give COVID-19 vaccines to India. His comments come a day after the US announced that India will get COVID vaccines via COVAX facility and directly as well in the first tranche of 25 million doses announced for the international community. Sullivan said, "The President made a commitment to ensure that India received doses. Not just an allocation under the regional portion of this through COVAX, but an additional allocation from our discretionary portion was something that he wanted to do."