The Rev. Jackson will join several prominent Indian leaders in the national capital on Wednesday and make a public appeal to Biden for more humanitarian assistance, a community statement said.

“This pandemic poses a threat to humanity, not to any one country. Our response should be surrounded as a threat,” Rev Jackson said in a statement. He will ask Biden to give India 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, it said.

Dr. Bharat Baraya, The Chairman, US India Friendship Council, Chairman, with the facility of supplying “Two years of essential antiviral drugs and Tochilizumaba with India Intermediate.”

Dr. Vijay Prabhakar, National President, American Association of Multinenic Physicians, USA called on Biden to implement the Federal International Emergency Production Act which will enable vaccine manufacturers in the US to increase their production capacity.

Dr. Prabhakar said, “We need to protect India first only then America and the rest of the world can be protected. Thanking Biden for his international vaccination pledge by providing 80,0,0,0 COVID-19 vaccines, he also requested India to give at least 60,0,000.

In its most recent update, the Union Health Ministry put the total number of COVID-19 cases in India at 2,52,28,996 and the death toll at 2,78,719. The ministry said there are 33,53,765 active cases, while 2,15,96,512 people have recovered from the infection so far.