‘Very pleased to see the United States step up and extend help to India in its hour of crisis’
Stories of the COVID-19 outbreak coming out of India are just absolutely “heart-wrenching” and “horrifying”, America’s Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said here.
Mr. Murthy said he was very pleased to see the United States step up and extend help to India in its hour of crisis.
“The US government will also be sending strike teams from the CDC and the USAID, Agency for International Development, to help India by working with their teams to strengthen laboratory capacity, to help with infection prevention and control,” he added.
Indian-American Murthy, who has become the US Surgeon General for the second time, has lost seven of his family members, both in the United States and India.
“We talk to our family there on a daily basis. They are really struggling. The stories coming out of India are just absolutely heart-wrenching, and they’re horrifying, where it’s the kind of circumstance that…