Brazil Thanked India for relative cooperation to produce a vaccine for coronavirus that might inject hope for billions on this planet.
Now the Russia Today reported that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has thanked Indian PM Narendra Modi after New Delhi gave the nod to continue exporting ingredients for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), stressing that the drug could save thousands of lives.
Brazil has earlier sent a series of requests to the Indian leader to allow exports of HCQ – an anti-malarial drug that has shown early promise as a treatment for Covid-19.
Bolsonaro said his country would soon receive “raw materials” to continue producing the drug itself, thanking Modi for the gesture.
“I am grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and to the Indian people, for this very timely help to the Brazilian people,” Bolsonaro said in an address on Wednesday.
The Brazilian president has repeatedly endorsed HCQ’s effectiveness against the lethal virus gripping Brazil and some 180 other nations, killing more then 88,000 people world wide.
Though the drug is still undergoing clinical trials for treating Covid-19, Bolsonaro said the decision to use it now“could go down in history as having saved thousands of lives in Brazil.”
“After listening to doctors, researchers and heads of state from other countries, I began to publicize … the possibility of treating the disease,” the president said in the same address, adding that he recently spoke with a doctor who had used the drug to treat “dozens of patients” and “all of them were saved.”
Earlier this week, New Delhi lifted a ban on export on HCQ, allowing shipments of the drug to resume to the US and other nations hit hardest by the coronavirus after a brief spat with Washington. US President Donald Trump initially slammed the export restriction, threatening “retaliation,” but thanked Modi after the ban was overturned.
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