French President Emanuel Macron underscores India's role in ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 diagnostics, treatment and immunization
New Delhi/IBNS: French President Emanuel Macron has stressed on India's role in making equitable access to diagnostics, treatment and immunization amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in a letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his condolences for the loss of life in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan, said a media report.
On behalf of the French people, Macron conveyed his full solidarity and offered to extend help that India may consider necessary to rehabilitate the people affected with the cyclone that pounded West Bengal and Odisha, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, said a Hindustan Times report.
“The president also underscored the importance of the cooperation between the two countries at a multilateral level and the support that India will be in a position to extend to France’s actions initiated under the G20 as well as to the Access to Covid Tools - Accelerator (ACT-A) initiative, which will play a vital role in providing equitable access to all for diagnostics, treatments and immunisation,” the HT report quoted a source.
The HT report said French Development Agency has given its nod to a concessional loan of 200 million euros which will bolster World Bank's efforts to provide additional support to the vulnerable people in India, the source added.
India and France have enhanced the training and research cooperation to fight the Covid-19 pandemic following a conversation between the two leaders on March 31.
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