India helping in COVID-19 prevention: Fauci-Times of Oman

India helping in COVID-19 prevention: Fauci-Times of Oman

Washington: US President Joe Biden's top medical adviser Anthony Fauci said that India's contribution to global scientific knowledge is well known to all and the knowledge is already helping in COVID-19 prevention and care. Speaking at the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) webinar on health cooperation, Fauci said: "Please accept my sincere empathy for the extremely difficult health crisis India is currently facing. As you know, the US was in a similar position several months ago before our vaccines became available." Underlining the critical role of science in dealing with such a crisis, he said that the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has a long history of collaboration with its counterpart agencies in the Indian government. "On the longstanding India-US vaccine action programme, we continue to work with India on research related to SARS-COV-2 vaccines. We are also eager to involve Indian investigators and insights in global clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of various COVID-19 therapeutics," he further said. Fauci also said that the US-India partnership between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and India's Department of Biotechnology as well as the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have helped produce important scientific