Les #Etats-Unis enverront [de la matière première pour la fabrication de #vaccins contre le #Covid-19] en #Inde
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25 avril (Reuters) - Les Etats-Unis fourniront immédiatement de la matière première pour la fabrication de vaccins contre le Covid-19, des équipements médicaux et du matériel de protection afin d’aider l’Inde à répondre à l’augmentation massive de cas de coronavirus, a annoncé dimanche la Maison Blanche.
U.S. to send vaccine materials and other supplies to hard-hit India, officials say.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/25/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases#us-vaccines-india-covid
Under pressure from vaccine makers in India who say they need supplies to combat a surge in coronavirus cases, the Biden administration said on Sunday that it had partially lifted a ban against the export of raw materials needed to make vaccines.
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Asked on Thursday why America would not lift its ban on exporting raw materials, Ned Price, a State Department spokesman, told reporters that “the United States first and foremost is engaged in an ambitious and effective and, so far, successful effort to vaccinate the American people.”
The resistance was met with criticism from Indian politicians and health experts.
“By stockpiling vaccines & blocking the export of crucial raw materials needed for vaccine production, the United States is undermining the strategic Indo-US partnership,” Milind Deora, a politician from Mumbai, one of the hardest-hit cities, said on Twitter.
The statement on Sunday marked a change in approach: [...]