Many countries are joining hands to help India cope with the second Covid-19 wave, but this effort is said to have only limited effects.

Oxygen generators from Saudi Arab and Unified Arab Emirates (UAE), raw materials to produce vaccines from the US, millions of dollars in cash support from companies by leadership, the world

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In the first months of 2021, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi acted as if India won a pandemic, organizing large-scale rally and allowed millions of people to participate in Hindu religious festivals

A Covid-19 patient in New Delhi, India, April 24.

Patients in New Delhi capital and many other cities are falling into danger because oxygen supply for the hospital has run out.

Yesterday, India on Thursday five consecutive broke the world record on the number of new NCOV cases, with nearly 353,000 cases recorded.

Earlier the month, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Indian Serum Institute, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, was directly sent messages to US President Joe Biden on Twitter, calling him to "rest projections"

Tim Manning, CoVid-19 coordinator of the White House, on April 26, said the Defense Production Act was activated by President Biden in March. Denied with a ban.

"Companies can export," Manning Tweet.

In response to increased pressure, the White House on April 25 announced that all barriers removed all barriers to the export of raw materials for vaccine production and will support India treatment drugs, test kits, machines

"Just like India sent US support supplies when our hospitals were overwhelmed in the early epidemic period, we were determined to help India in this urgent time," said Biden President

The Biden administration then shared 60 million doses of Astrazeneca vaccine from its warehouse to other countries in the next few months, as long as they passed the safety assessment due to US Food and Pharmaceutical Management Agency (

US Assembly General Vivek Murthy, who announced plans on Twitter social networks, did not specify which country would receive these vaccines.

American Congress members have mobilized the corridor to persuade President Biden sponsoring Astrazeneca for India because many Americans in this country are trying to get vaccinated.

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The support provided by the Biden administration with India to be expected to put the development foundation for the Biden - Modi relationship at a time when both Washington and Beijing are competing with New Delhi.

Some other countries are also involved in the "rescue" Indian efforts.

He committed to supporting medical equipment, including 495 oxygen generators and 140 breathing machines.

Two Indian-American entrepreneurs, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google Sundar Pichai Director, claiming their company will provide financial support to India.

"It is heartbroken when witnessing the Covid-19 crisis in India," Pichai wrote on Twitter, committed to granting 18 million USD to active aid groups in the country.

Indian officials have also been making a suggestion directly to other countries.

"The EU is synthesizing resources to quickly meet the support requirements from India through EU civil protection mechanisms," said European Commission President (EC) Ursula von der Leyen.

However, all it seems still not enough to fill the holes in the Indian health system and stop the pandemic.

Notice of all vaccines is pasted outside a Covid-19 vaccination center in Mumbai last month.

"The situation out there was really desperate," said Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Indian, economic and epidemic center, and added that all support were festivals

India is lagging behind many other countries on pandemic response as well as the capacity to expand the scale of health systems.

Unlike America or England, countries signed an agreement to buy a million doses of Astrazeneca vaccine from early May last year, India must wait until January 2021 to do the same thing.

Since September last year, at the peak stage of the first Covid-19 wave, India has shown that they will depend heavily on the Russian Sputnik V vaccine when signing an agreement to buy 100 million doses of this vaccine.

Experts say if India significantly enhances vaccine production capacity and emergency use licenses for other vaccine manufacturers, they can limit the worst impacts of the second Covid-19 wave

"This is the only long-term solution," said Dr. Laxminarayan.