The United States promised, Sunday, April 25, to deploy additional resources to come to the aid of the Indian government and caregivers, in difficulty in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the country which has nearly 17 million cases. 

"The United States is very concerned about the severe Covid-19 epidemic in India. We are working tirelessly to deploy additional resources and support for our friends and partners in India, who are courageously fighting against the pandemic," said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on twitter. 

The US is deeply concerned by the severe COVID outbreak in India.

We are working around the clock to deploy more supplies and support to our friends and partners in India as they bravely battle this pandemic.

More very soon.

- Jake Sullivan (@ JakeSullivan46) April 25, 2021

Washington is under increasing pressure to do more to help India, the world's largest democracy and a strategic ally in President Joe Biden's efforts to counter China, as it grapples with a record increase in coronavirus infections. 

Humanitarian disaster risk 

The Indian government has deployed military planes and trains to deliver the oxygen needed by hospitals to Delhi.

India reported an additional 349,691 cases on Sunday, for a total of 16.96 million cases, including 192,311 deaths, the health ministry said.  

The country of 1.3 billion people is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, Ashish Jha, dean of the school of public health at Brown University, warned in a column published in the Washington Post on Saturday. 

Some 2,000 people die every day, he said, but most experts estimate the real number to be five to ten times the number.

Officials from both countries are engaged at various levels to ensure "production of Covid-19 vaccines in India," a spokesperson for the Indian embassy in Washington told Reuters. 

With Reuters 

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