Anti-US sentiment explodes as Biden remains cold to India's Covid needs

Clamour Grows Against ‘Americans First’ Vax Policy

- Chidanand.Rajghatta @timesgroup.com

BLISS OF VACCINE: Israel has recorded no new daily Covid death for the first time in 10 months, BBC reported on Saturday. The country’s toll has remained unchanged at 6,346, the report said. Israel has the highest vaccination rate in the world with over 5 million jabs administered

Washington: Anti-US and anti-western sentiment is exploding across social media with growing criticism directed at the Biden-Harris administration for sitting on stockpiles of unused vaccines, guarding patents, and turning a deaf ear to the dire situation in Covid-wracked countries such as India.

Even American civil society, lawmakers, and businesses are joining the denunciation of Washington amid reports that the US is sitting on huge stockpiles of vaccines though demand is plateauing or dropping across America, leading to many vaccinations centres shutting down — an implicit repudiation of the Biden administration’s stand that it wants to take care of Americans first. In a surprise push back, the US Chamber of Commerce on Friday urged the administration to release the millions of AstraZeneca doses in storage as well as other life-saving support for shipment to India, Brazil, and “other nations hard-hit by the pandemic”. USCC’s executive vice-president Myron Brilliant said, “These vaccine doses will not be needed in the US, where it’s estimated that vaccine manufacturers will be able produce enough doses by early June to vaccinate every American.”