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NORTH AmERIcAN Newsline                                                        MAY 28, 2021  |    The Indian Eye                          28




                                                    covid-19 crisis in india


        rev jesse jackson Sr assures assistance to Tamil Nadu




            Rev Jackson also urged President Joe Biden to allocate at least 60 million doses to India


        Our Bureau                                                                                                    who is also a member of the
        New York                                                                                                      House Select Subcommittee on
                                                                                                                      the Coronavirus Crisis, assured
                merican civil rights ac-                                                                              help to India.
                tivist Rev Jesse Jackson                                                                                 “Help is on the way. And we
       ASr spoke to Tamil Nadu                                                                                        are going to do everything we
        Finance Minister Palanivel Thia-                                                                              can. I’m a member of the spe-
        ga Rajan (PTR) in a Zoom call                                                                                 cial select committee on COVID
        on May 21 and assured that                                                                                    in Congress. And so, this is an
        COVID-19 assistance is on its                                                                                 area that I deeply care about.
        way,  amid  state’s  fight  against                                                                           And so I’m going to be pushing
        the COVID-19 pandemic.                                                                                        very hard. Those who are ill I’m
            According to a press release,                                                                             thinking about you. We are all
        PTR made a plea to Jackson                                                                                    praying for you. My own family
        Sr to request US President Joe                                                                                was touched. Now we are going
        Biden to expeditiously release                                                                                to try and we’re going to try to
        an allotment of Astra Zene-                                                                                   help you in a fundamental way,”
        ca vaccines for India from the                                                                                he told ANI.
        80 million vaccines that the US                                                                                  The news conference held
        has  offered  to  donate overseas.                                                                            in Washington earlier today also
        PTR conveyed the gratitude of                                                                                 witnessed some of the promi-
        the people of Tamil Nadu and                                                                                  nent names within the Indian
        of Chief Minister MK Stalin to                                                                                American community. Dr Vi-
        Jackson for their  efforts  to as-                                                                            jay Prabhakar, national chair-
        sist India, including the State of  COVID-19 infections and 4,194        or ideology,” he further stated.     man, American Association of
        Tamil Nadu, during this pandem- deaths were reported in the                  Alarmed at the 222,000 con- Multi-Ethnic  Physicians,  USA,
        ic. The minister also stressed that  country in the last 24 hours, the   firmed deaths in India and a sec- thanked President Biden for
        Covid-19 vaccines are immedi- Union Health Ministry informed             ond wave of the virus sweeping  his international vaccination
        ately needed for the 80 million  on Saturday. The cumulative             rural India, Rev. Jackson assert- pledge by providing 80 million
        population of Tamil Nadu as the  caseload in India now stands at         ed the dire situation and there  COVID-19 vaccines, but he also
        state has till Saturday recorded  2,62,89,290.                           was an immediate need for vac- urged Biden to give at least 60
        over 18 lakh cases.                     Rev Jesse Jackson Sr on           cines in India.” India needs res- million of those to India alone.
            Jesse Jackson also conveyed  Wednesday urged President Joe           pirators and oxygen now. The             Dr Prabhakar says that the
        a personal message to Tamil  Biden to allocate at least 60 mil-          nation  has  already  surpassed  community is collectively push-
        Nadu CM: “Chief Minister Sta- lion vaccine doses to India out of         100,000,000 vaccine doses. How- ing the Biden administration to
        lin, You are the man! Help is  the 80 million announced earli-           ever, as this outbreak spreads, it  invoke the Federal International
        coming. Chief Minister Stalin,  er by the US President. Jackson          is imperative for President Biden  Emergency Production Act which
        Help is on the way. Dawn of the  was joined by Congressman Raja          and the United States to step up  would enable the manufacturers
        morning is coming. We will win  Krishnamoorthi making a moral            even more to prevent the contin- of the vaccine in the USA to in-
        this battle! We will win this bat- appeal and the duo assured that       ued loss of life,” Jackson said in  crease their production capacity
        tle! We will conquer this disease,  help is on its way.                  his concluding remarks.              and roll out the vaccines before
        Keep hope alive! Thank God,             With India having the second         Indian American Congress- May 31. “We need to protect In-
        Bless you guys.”                     highest population in the world,    man, Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Il- dia  first.  Only  then  can  Ameri-
            On Wednesday, Jesse Jack- Rev. Jackson fears the variant in          linois, who had earlier called on  ca and the rest of the world be
        son Sr had urged President Joe  India could spread to the rest of        President Joe Biden to release  protected,” Dr Prabhakar said.
        Biden to allocate at least 60 mil- the world. “Not only are they (In-    millions of AstraZeneca vaccine         Also thanking President Biden
        lion vaccine doses to India out of  dia) our neighbor in democracy       doses to hardest-hit countries  for coming to the aid of India was
        the 80 million announced earli- and ally, the disease is airborne.       like India, once again reached  Dr Bharat Barai, chairman, U.S.
        er by the US President. Jackson  We help ourselves and the world         out to the White House to roll  India Friendship Council, Mun-
        was also joined by Congressman  when we help to ameliorate the           out vaccines for the people of In- ster, Indiana, who urged the Pres-
        Raja Krishnamoorthi making  virus,” Jackson said at the new              dia and impacted communities  ident to facilitate the supply of
        a moral appeal and the duo as- conference. “COVID-19 knows               around the world.                    the “much needed antiviral med-
        sured that help is on its way.       no national boundaries. It does         Rep.    Krishnamoorthi,      a ications of Remdesivir and To-
            A total of 2,57,299 fresh  not discriminate by race, religion         strong Indian American voice,  cilizumab to India immediately.”


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