Eminent American civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging President Joe Biden to release 60 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to India, which is experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of the pandemic in the world.
Rev. Jackson will be joined by a number of prominent Indian leaders in the US capital on Wednesday, to make a public appeal to Biden for more humanitarian aid, according to a community statement.
"The pandemic poses a threat to humanity, not to any one country. Our response must be as encompassing as the threat," Rev Jackson said in a statement. He will urge Biden to give India 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, it said.
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