{"id":120299,"date":"2021-04-27T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120299"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:21:41","slug":"covid-19-us-pres-biden-indian-pm-modi-have-phone-conversation-on-tackling-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120299","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: US Pres Biden, Indian PM Modi have phone conversation on tackling pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/images.china.cn\/site1007\/2021-04\/27\/0d85c4cd-8433-4c6c-826c-11e493953262.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>US President Joe Biden (L) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; US President Joe Biden promised to support India hit hard by COVID-19 in a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden pledged &#8220;America&#8217;s steadfast support for the people of India who have been impacted by the recent surge in COVID-19 cases,&#8221; the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is providing India with a range of emergency assistance, including oxygen-related supplies, vaccine materials, and therapeutics, said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phone call between the two leaders came amid mounting pressure for the Biden administration to lend a hand to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Thursday, when asked about whether the United States would lift the export ban of vaccine raw materials, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that &#8220;it&#8217;s in the interests of the rest of the world to see Americans vaccinated.&#8221; His remarks drew criticism among the Indian public and health experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is witnessing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. On Monday morning, the country reported the world&#8217;s biggest-ever daily surge with 352,991 new cases and 2,812 related deaths in the past 24 hours. &#8212; NNN-Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; US President Joe Biden promised to support India hit hard by COVID-19 in a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House said. Biden pledged &#8220;America&#8217;s steadfast support for the people of India who have been impacted by the recent surge in COVID-19 cases,&#8221; the White House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}