As India battles a massive spike in coronavirus cases amid oxygen shortage, French President Emmanuel Macron had said last month that France is ready to provide its support to the country to deal with the situation. Now, Considering that India is still struggling with the second wave of coronavirus infection and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds in view of rising COVID-19 cases, now Macron reiterates his support and solidarity to India.

Macron has held a telephonic conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reiterated the support and solidarity of the French people in the context of a particularly deadly COVID-19 epidemic wave in India.

"In phone call with PM @NarendraModi, Prez @EmmanuelMacron highlighted that France would continue to stand by India to fight the pandemic together, with more support underway. The two leaders discussed how to bolster multilateral action against the virus," tweeted Emmanuel Lenain, Ambassador of France to India.

President Macron reiterated the importance of ACT-A, including the COVAX facility, to strengthen the multilateral approach to the production, sale and donation of vaccines, read the statement. Since April 2020, the ACT-Accelerator partnership, launched by WHO and partners, has supported the fastest, most coordinated, and successful global effort in history to develop tools to fight the disease.

Meanwhile, France will be sharing at least 30 million doses of vaccines by different manufacturers by the end of the year through the COVAX COVID-19 vaccines distribution mechanism, President Emmanuel Macron announced on last Friday.

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