After China, India reaches out to LAC, African nations with medicine diplomacy

BRAND-NEW DELHI: As China woos the world with Covid-related help, India is also seeking to spread its medicine diplomacy net far and wide. While lots of countries like the United States have actually purchased the antimalarial drug– hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)– from India, the federal government has up until now likewise offered it as grant support to 24 countries.

It is now wanting to connect to 52 more nations spread mainly throughout Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) and also Africa with similar grants. China has stepped up assistance to both Latin America and Africa in the previous couple of months, even as worldwide media remains focused more on Beijing’s medical aid to the West.

Official sources stated India had allocated 5 million HCQ tablets for 28 LAC countries and 100,000 each for 19 African nations. Including others types of medical help, India will provide Covid-related stuff simply as grant to more than 90 countries in the next few weeks. Seventy