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Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma

Opinion | With Covid-19, India’s crisis is an emergency for the world

  • The aid so far has been a drop in the ocean of new cases and deaths each day
  • The big question now for all countries is how to stop the tsunami of infections

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As images of cremation pyres and gasping patients were seen around the world, foreign governments began to take action and supplies started trickling in. Photo: Bloomberg
Josephine Ma
In the fight against Covid-19, every day counts – once it starts to spread in the community, cases grow exponentially.
The world is already late in responding to the humanitarian crisis in India, with the Biden administration waiting until last week to finally agree to lift export restrictions on vaccine materials to India.

As images of cremation pyres and gasping patients were seen around the world, foreign governments began to take action and supplies started trickling in.

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But so far the deliveries are just a drop in the ocean.

The US has sent four planeloads with some 1,500 oxygen cylinders, 125,000 vials of the antiviral remdesivir, and more than 900,000 N95 masks, according to The Times of India.

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Britain sent 480 small devices known as oxygen concentrators and Ireland sent 700, while France ferried in eight oxygen generators for hospital use.

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