. The Indian government has deployed military planes and trains to get oxygen to Delhi from other parts of the country and foreign countries, including Singapore.
The number of cases across the country of around 1.3 billion rose overnight by 346,786, India's Health Ministry said on Saturday, for a total of 16.6 million cases, including 189,544 deaths.Officials from both countries are engaged at various levels to ensure"a small supply of inputs and components from US companies for production of COVID-19 vaccines in India," a spokesman at the Indian Embassy in Washington told Reuters.
"We believe it is important to work together to identify both bottlenecks in medical supply chains and potential solutions for overcoming these [bottlenecks], and to combat the global pandemic together and expedite ongoing vaccination efforts," the spokesman said.